The encoding of reflexive relations is a wide topic for investigation. Linguists have already examined English reflexive verbs. My aim is to elaborate on the topic of the –sja verbs with the respect to how they behave in different constructions based on the previous studies and some personal observations in corpora. The corpora observations were done on verb intances found in a newspaper. The conclusions outline the similarities and the differences in the behaviour of the Russian -sja verbs.