General Part

Section 3.

Punishment.

Chapter 9.

Notion of punishment, purposes and types.

Article 59. Imprisonment for a certain term.

1. Imprisonment is isolation from the society in the form of keeping the convict in a correctional institution, in custody.

2. Imprisonment can last from 3 months to 15 years.

3. Imprisonment for a crime through negligence can not exceed 10 years.

4. When assigning punishment by aggregate of crimes, in case of complete or partial summation of imprisonment terms, the maximal term can not exceed 15 years, and by aggregate of sentences, 20 years.

General Part

Section 3.

Punishment.

Chapter 9.

Notion of punishment, purposes and types.

Article 60. Life sentence.

1. Life sentence is isolation of the convict in a form of keeping him imprisoned in a corrective institution without time-limit, which in cases envisaged in this Code can be assigned for particularly grave crimes.

2. Persons under 18 years of age at the time of committal of the crime, and women pregnant at the time of committal of the crime or sentencing, can not be sentenced to life sentence.

General Part

Section 3.


Punishment.

Chapter 10.

Assignment of punishment.

Article 66. Assignment of punishment by accumulation of crimes.

4. If the aggregate of crimes involves grave and particularly grave crimes, then the final punishment is assigned by complete or partial summation of punishments. The final punishment can not exceed 15 years of imprisonment. If one of the accomplices is sentenced to life, then the final basic punishment is decided by absorption.

Special Part

Section 13.

Crimes against peace and human security

Chapter 33.

Crimes against peace and human security

Article 393. Genocide.

The actions aimed at the complete or partial extermination of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups by means of killing the members of this group , inflicting severe damage to their health , violently preventing them from childbearing , enforced hand-over of children , violent re-population, or physical elimination of the members of this group , are punished with imprisonment for the term of 13 to 15 years or with life sentence.

Special Part

Section 13.

Crimes against peace and human security

Chapter 33.

Crimes against peace and human security

Article 396. Assault on persons or organizations under international protection.

1. Assault on the employees of foreign states or international organizations under international protection, or on family members residing with them, on office or residential buildings or means of transportation of persons under international protection, if these actions were committed with the purpose of provoking war, or complication of international relations, is punished with imprisonment for the term of 3 to 7 years.

2. The same actions which negligently caused human death, heavy damage to health or destruction of property or important documents, is punished with imprisonment for the term of 3 to 12 years.