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Army insignia of the Russian federation

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Article 6. Object of Copyright. General Provisions

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.

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]).

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^ 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
^ 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.

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