Attached please find the translation of Article 178 of the code of administrative offences of the Russian Federation and an English version of Article 206 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) as amended to 1 March 1972.

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Attachments

Berman, Harold J. 1992. Second ed.

Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure: The RSFSR

Codes. Cambridge, Mass., p. 186.

Russian Federation. Article 178 of the code of administrative offences of the Russian

Federation. Official translation.