GENERAL PART

SECTION II. CRIME

CHAPTER 3. NOTION AND TYPES OF CRIME

Article 13. Particularly Severe Crimes

Particularly severe crimes are willful crimes for which the law provides over 10 years of imprisonment or imprisonment for life.

GENERAL PART

SECTION III. SENTENCE

CHAPTER 9. SENTENCE NOTION AND PURPOSE. TYPES OF SENTENCE

Article 50. Imprisonment for life

(1) Imprisonment for life consists in the isolation of a convicted person from society by placing him in a reformatory colony of special regime and shall be imposed for particularly serious crimes committed against the life, honor and dignity of a person, or actions aimed at extermination, wholly or in part, of national, ethnic and religious groups.

(2) Imprisonment for life shall not be imposed on :

- women ;
- persons committing crimes while they are under eighteen years of age ;
- men aged sixty or over at the moment of commission of crime.

(3) Imprisonment for life may be replaced with imprisonment for a term of thirty years as a result of pardon.

SPECIAL PART

SECTION X. CRIMES AGAINST STATE POWER

CHAPTER 31. CRIMES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Article 319. Murder of a Person Administering Justice or One Engaged in a Preliminary Investigation

The murder of a judge, juror, or any other person participating in the administration of justice, of a procurator, investigator, a person conducting inquest, a defense lawyer, an expert, an officer of justice, and also of their relatives, in connection with the examination of cases or materials in court, with the preliminary investigation or the execution of a court's judgment or decision, or any other judicial act, accomplished for the purpose of obstructing the lawful activity of said persons or out of revenge for such activity,

Shall be punishable by twelve to twenty years of imprisonment with confiscation of property or imprisonment for life with confiscation of property.

SPECIAL PART

SECTION XII. CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF MANKIND

CHAPTER 34. CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE AND SECURITY MANKIND

Article 373. Genocide

shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years, or imprisonment for life.