LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of October 18, 1991 No. 1761-I

About recovery of victims of political repressions

For years of the Soviet power millions of people became the victims of arbitrary behavior of the totalitarian state, underwent to repressions for political and religious beliefs, on social, national and other features.

Condemning long-term terror and mass prosecutions of the people as incompatible with the idea of the right and justice, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation feels deep sympathy for the victims of unreasonable repressions, their family, declares the steady aspiration to try to obtain real guarantees of law enforcement and human rights.

The purpose of this Law is rehabilitation of all victims of the political repressions subjected to that in the territory of the Russian Federation since October 25 (on November 7), 1917, their recovery in the civil laws, elimination of other effects of arbitrary behavior and ensuring compensation of material damage feasible now.

I. General provisions

Article 1. Political repressions the different enforcement measures applied by the state for political motives in the form of deprivation of life or freedom, the placement on forced treatment in mental health medical institutions, expulsions from the country and deprivation of nationality, eviction of national groups from the places of residence, the directions in the reference, dispatch and to the special settlement, attraction to forced labor in the conditions of restriction of freedom, and also other deprivation or restriction of the rights and freedoms of persons who were recognized socially dangerous to the state or political system on class, social, national, religious or other features, performed on decisions of the courts and other bodies equipped with judicial functions, or administratively executive bodies and officials and public organizations or their bodies, the given administrative authority are recognized.

Article 1.1. And subject to rehabilitation are recognized undergone to political repressions: the children who were together with the parents or persons repressed for political motives replacing them in places of detention, in the reference, dispatch, on the special settlement;

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