Foma

Source

• foma.ru (non-Q&A content)

About the portal

The source portal foma.ru is part of the Orthodox media project “Foma”, which positions itself as “Orthodox media for those who doubt” and aims to explain Orthodox faith and church life in modern, accessible language.

Popularity and reach

• The portal reports approximately 2.5 million monthly unique readers for foma.ru.
• The project reports a total monthly audience reach of about 17 million users across all platforms (as of December 2025).
• “Foma” is described as one of the largest Orthodox media outlets in Russia and ranks in the TOP-3 Runet web projects covering religion in general.

Editorial and organization

• Creators: journalists Vladimir Legoyda and Vladimir Gurbolikov.
• Founder/publisher: the “Foma Center” foundation (Фонд «Фома Центр»).
• Print edition editor-in-chief: V. R. Legoyda; portal foma.ru editor-in-chief: V. A. Gurbolikov.
• The project is not an official organ of the Russian Orthodox Church but cooperates with clergy and church structures; the magazine carries the mark “Approved by the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church”.

Rubrics and thematic focus

“Foma” describes its specialization as cultural and educational. Its typical focus includes religion, society, culture, history, and related public issues, while avoiding discussion of day-to-day secular politics.

History

• The project has been present online since the early 2000s.
• The dedicated website foma.ru was launched in 2006.

Significance

• The magazine started as a print publication in 1996 and evolved from a black-and-white almanac into a multi-format media project.
• It has been included in the list of socially significant publications for subscription campaigns since 2016.

Document structure

• <doc> metadata: doc.language, doc.author, doc.status, doc.title, doc.pubyear, doc.source, doc.url, doc.rubric, doc.text_id.
• Sentence segmentation: <s> (attribute: s.id).

Linguistic annotation

The corpus is annotated within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework using UDPipe for lemmatization and UPOS tagging, with morphological features in UD FEATS format.

The tagger and lemmatizer model is based on UD Russian SynTagRus.

For the tagset and annotation notes, see: corpora.fisun.org/corpus-pages/tagset.html.

Corpus attributes

Positional attributes: word, lemma, pos, morph, lc.

Size

Lexicon sizes

Metadata inventory

The corpus defines <doc> with 9 attributes and <s> with 1 attribute (s.id).

How to cite

Fisun, Roman. 2025. Foma: Russian Orthodox Magazine Corpus. Compiled from foma.ru (data collected in December 2025; Q&A content excluded). Available at: https://corpora.fisun.org/ (corpus name: foma). Accessed: <YYYY-MM-DD>.

Software

• NoSketch Engine (corpus query system): sketchengine.eu/nosketch-engine
• UDPipe (tokenization, lemmatization, and tagging): ufal.mff.cuni.cz/udpipe

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