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Public domain This work is not an object of copyright according to Law No. 5351-1 of the Russian Federation of July 9, 1993[1] on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.

Article 6. Object of Copyright. General Provisions

Copyright shall not apply to ideas, methods, processes, systems, means, concepts, principles, discoveries, and facts.

Article 8. Works That Are Not Objects of Copyright

The following shall not be objects of copyright:
  • official documents (laws, judicial decisions, and other legislative, administrative and judicial texts), as well as their official translations;
  • state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes and other national symbols and signs);
  • works of folk art; news reports on events and facts.

Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English.

Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Russian SFSR and the USSR (union level[2]).

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted.

  1. ^ Attention – On January 1, 2008, Law No. 5351-1 will be replaced by Part IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. See Template:PD-RU-exempt/2008
  2. ^ The union level means that use of official symbols and the formal documents of 14 other Soviet Republics is the subject of law of their legal successor. See respective license tags.

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