The Russian National Corpus is a representative collection of texts in Russian, counting more than 2 bln tokens and completed with linguistic annotation and search tools

The National Corpus of Russian Language has opened a public API for researchers, developers, and teachers. It allows you to perform search queries to the Word at a glance and lexical-grammatical search programmatically and receive results in Concordance format.

Getting started is easy: log in to the website, get an access key, and review the sample queries in the documentation.

The terms of use for data retrieved via the API are the same as the standard terms of use for the Corpus.

We continue to develop the functionality of the corpus for teaching Russian in schools. Eight new rules have been added to the Practice Example Generator:

• Spelling of vowels in nominal suffixes
• Spelling of vowels in verbal suffixes
• Alternation of vowels with zero
• Double role of the letters Е, Ё, Ю, Я
• Spelling of the soft sign within words
• Differentiating between hard and soft signs
• Conjugation of verbs with unstressed personal endings
• Spelling of unstressed endings of nouns in the singular

Users can now select examples for eleven spelling rules from two corpora: Educational and “From 2 to 15.” You can access the generator page from the RNC for school page by clicking on the corresponding banner.

The National Media corpus has been expanded with publications from the 1980s–1990s, adding 2.4 million word usages. Among the new additions is a substantial collection of issues from the newspaper “Kommersant” (1992–1996 and 2001), along with selected issues of “Vechernyaya Moskva”, “Izvestia”, “Literaturnaya Gazeta”, “Moskovskaya Pravda”, “Pravda”, “Trud”, and “Trud-7”.

This expansion enables more detailed analysis of lexical shifts, thematic focus, and the genre structure of newspaper texts over the decades.

For example: In the 1980s and 1990s, there is a clear predominance of long-form genres, such as articles and interviews, compared to the general corpus. In contrast, the 2010s press shows a growing trend toward short-form informational genres, reinforcing the shift toward brevity and immediacy in modern journalism.

Thematic trends also illustrate how the media landscape has evolved: In the 1980s and 1990s, dominant themes include politics and public life, art and culture, and private life. By the 2010s, there's a noticeable rise in coverage of business, sports, crime, accidents, law, administration, and management. These changes reflect the broader transformation of public interests and the media environment over time.