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Article 228. The manufacture or sale of pornographic objects

The manufacture, distribution, or advertising of pornographic writings, publications, pictures, or other objects of a pornographic character, and in like manner, trading in such objects or keeping them for the purpose of their sale or distribution—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed three years, or by a fine not to exceed 1,000 rubles, with confiscation of the pornographic materials and the means of producing them.

Article 229. Violation of graves

The violation of a grave, and in like manner the theft of objects in or upon a grave—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed three years, or by corrective labor for a period not to Exceed one year.

Article 230. Willful destruction, damaging, or disfiguring of cultural monuments

The willful destruction, damaging, or disfiguring of cultural monuments, or of natural objects taken under the protection of the state—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed two years, or by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed 1,000 rubles,

Chapter Eleven
Crimes representing vestiges of Local Customs

Article 231. Refusal of reconciliation

The refusal, on the part of the relatives of a person who has been murdered, to desist from the pursuit of a blood feud with respect to the murderer and his relatives in accordance with the procedure established by the Decree on Reconciliation Proceedings in Cases Involving Blood Feuds—

shall be punishable by exile for a period not to exceed two years, or by banishment for a period not to exceed three years.