Overview

I used sudrfscraper (a scraper for the Russian court system) to compile a large database – over 150 GB – of criminal court decisions issued by Russian courts between January 2008 (when a unified electronic database began, though its coverage was initially sparse) and September 2023.

The majority of the entries are text-based (i.e. full texts of courts decisions). If you’d like access to the complete dataset, please contact me at avlasov@nes.ru.

Because of its size, I am sharing a random sample of up to 30,000 records, covering the period from January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2022.

View dataset

You can find the samples in this github folder.

It contains 5 csv files:

  • all_articles.csv : 30,000 random records 2015-01-01 to 2022-01-01.
  • all_articles1.csv : another random sample with the same restrictions as above.
  • article_105.csv : 30,000 random court cases of murders (105th article of Russian criminal code, Статья 105 УК РФ)
  • article_159.csv : 30,000 random court cases of fraud (159 article of Russian criminal code, Статья 159 УК РФ)
  • article_228.csv : 30,000 random court cases of drug related crimes (228th article of Russian criminal code, Статья 228 УК РФ)

Source of data

Data was collected using sudrfscraper and a lot of time.