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This work is not an object of copyright according to article 1259 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006

Shall not be objects of copyright:

1. official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
2. state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
3. works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
4. news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).

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