Annex 3
to the Reply by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Russian Federation
EXTRACTS
from the Resolution of the State Duma
of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
of December 13, 1999, entitled
"On amnesty for persons who committed socially dangerous acts in the
course of the antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus"
"In order to achieve civil peace and accord in the Russian
Federation and guided by the principle of humanism, the State Duma, in
accordance with Article 103, part 1, para. "e", of the Constitution of
the Russian Federation, decides:
1. Not to initiate criminal proceedings in respect of
persons who committed socially dangerous acts in the course of the
antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus, gave up armed resistance
and voluntarily surrendered arms and military equipment, as well as in
respect of those servicemen, law-enforcement officers and officers of the
penitentiary system who committed socially dangerous acts in the course
of the above operation.
2. To stop criminal investigations and to close cases
pending trial in respect of persons mentioned in para.1 of this
Resolution.
3. To relieve persons mentioned in para. 1 of this
Resolution from serving their sentences.
4. Not to extend paras. 1-3 of this Resolution to:
a) persons who committed acts specified in Articles 105,
111, 126, 131, 162, 205, 206, 226, 244, 277, 281, 294-296, 317, 333, 334
of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as servicemen,
law-enforcement officers and officers of the penitentiary system who
committed crimes, such as theft of firearms, ammunition and explosives
and their sale to members of illegal armed formations or stable armed
groups ( bands) or other persons who resisted the antiterrorist operation
in the North Caucasus;
b) persons who repeatedly committed particularly dangerous
crimes;
c) foreign nationals and stateless persons.
5. To stop, on proposal by the Commission on war prisoners,
interned and missing persons, attached to the President of the Russian
Federation, criminal investigations, irrespective of the nature of the
crimes committed, and to close cases pending trial in respect of persons
who are to be exchanged for servicemen, law-enforcement officers and
citizens held by force in the territory of the Chechen Republic.
6. To relieve persons mentioned in para. 5 of this
Resolution from serving their sentences.
7. To clear persons relieved from serving their sentences on
the basis of paras. 3 and 6 of this Resolution of criminal records".
According to the Resolution, it comes into force on the date of
its official promulgation.
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