Intelligence Related Laws and Edicts

Russian Federation Laws

On the Certification of Products and Services
On Communications - 20 January 1995
On Defense
On the Federal Government Communications and Information Agency - February 1993
On the Federal Organs of Government Communications and Information
On the Federal Organs of State Security - July 1992 [12 August 1992]
On the Fight Against Terrorism - 25 July 1998
On Foreign Intelligence - 10 January 1996
On the Foreign Intelligence Service - July 1992
On Information, Information Technology, and Protection of Information - 20 February 1995
On the Legal Protection of Programs for Computers and Data Bases
On Operational Investigative Activity in the Russian Federation - 29 April 1992
On Organs of the Federal Security Service in the Russian Federation - 03 April 1995
On Participation in the International Exchange of Information
On the Right to Information [Draft Law] September 1997
On the Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs Internal Troops - 06 February 1997
On the Russian Federation State Border
On Security - 06 May 1992
On State Secrets
On State Protection of Government Bodies and Their Officials - April 1993

Edicts, Decrees and Directives

[replacement of the KGB] - Soviet Presidential Decree - 25 October 1991
Federal Security Agency - Presidential Decree - 26 November 1991
Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - Presidential Edict No. 293, 18 December 1991
Russian Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs - Presidential Decree, 19 December 1991
The State Technical Commission under the Russian Federation President - Presidential Edict No. 9, 05 January 1992
[Russian Federation Presidential Security Service] Presidential Decree - 13 November 1993 [SECRET]
[disbanding the Ministry of Security] Presidential Decree - 21 December 1993
On the Creation of the Federal Border Service -- the RF Main Border Troops Command - 30 December 1993
Edict on the Struggle Against Banditism [date??]
On Confirmation of the Statute on the Russian Federation Federal Counterintelligence Service 5 January 1994
Questions of the Protection of State Secrets - Presidential Edict 614 - 30 March 1994
On Urgent Measures to Implement the Program to Step Up the Fight Against Crime - Presidential Edict - 01 June 1994
Directive on Implementation of the Program to Step Up the Fight Against Crime - 07 June 1994]
On Investigative Bodies in the FSK - Presidential Edict - 23 November 1994
On the RF Federal Border Service - 30 December 1994
On Procedure for Declassification of and Extension of Classification Limits on USSR Government Archival Documents - 01 March 1995
On Legal Matters in the area of Development, Production, Sale and Usage of Encoding Devices Presidential Edict No. 334 - 03 April 1995 [also see SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL DECREE ON DATA ENCRYPTION: FAPSI GIVEN NEW POWERS - 12 MAY 95 - FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW]
On the Statute of the Russian Federation Federal Security Service - Presidential Decree No.633 - 23 June 1995
Concerning Measures on Formation of an All-Russian Telecommunications System and Guaranteeing the Rights of Proprietors in Protection of Securities on the Stock Market of the Russian Federation Legislative Act by Russian President No 662 - 03 July 1995
[Russian Federation Presidential Security Service] Presidential Edict - 01 August 1995
[Main Administration for the Protection of the Russian Federation (GUO) ] Presidential Edict - 01 August 1995
Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets - Edict No. 1108 - 08 November 1995
On Approving List of Information Classified as State Secrets - Presidential Edict No 1203 - 30 November 1995 [and text of list]
On the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets - Presidential Edict No. 71 - 20 January 1996
Instruction on the Procedure for Transmitting Information Concerning the Coordinates of Geodesic Points and Geographic Objects on the Territory of the Russian Federation to Foreign States and International Organizations - Government Decree No. 120 - 08 February 1996
On Measures to Fight Terrorism - Presidential Decree - 06 March 1996
State Program of the Protection of State Secrets in the Russian Federation for 1996-1997 - Edict No. 346 - 09 March 1996
On the Structure and Function of the Situation Center Presidential Directive 171 - 09 April 1996
Statute on the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation - 22 April 1996 [published 21 May]
On the Russian Federation Security Council - Presidential Edict No. 1024 10 July 1996
On the Russian Federation Defense Council - Presidential Edict No. 1102 - 25 July 1996
On Approving the Statute on the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - Presidential Edict No. 1039 - 18 July 1996
On Ratification of the Statute on the Russian Federation President's Administration Edict No. 1412 - 02 October 1996
Fundamentals of Russian Federation Border Policy - 05 October 1996
Complete and Abbreviated Designations of Federal Organs of Executive Authority Directive No. 2868/1027, 10 December 1996
On the Structure of the Russian Federation Federal Security Service - Presidential Decree No.515 - 22 May 1997
On Ratification of the Statute on Preparing Information Comprising State Secrets For Transfer To Other States - Government Decree - 02 August 1997
Statute of the Interagency Commission on International Security of the Russian Federation Security Council - 02 October 1997
Statute of the Interagency Commission for Protection of Citizens' Rights and Public Safety, and Combating Crime and Corruption of the Russian Federation Security Council - 02 October 1997
Statute of the Interagency Commission on Problems of the Defense-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation Security Council - 02 October 1997
Statute of the Interagency Commission on Economic Security of the Russian Federation Security Council - 02 October 1997
Statute of the Interagency Commission on Border Policy of the Russian Federation Security Council - 02 October 1997
Statute of the Interagency Commission on Defense Security of the Russian Federation Security Council - 02 October 1997
Statute of the Interagency Commission on International Security of the Russian Federation Security Council - 02 October 1997
On Information Protection From Loss Through Technical Channels and Counteracting Technical Intelligence Services [draft October 1997]
On Approval of the Statute on the Russian Federation Federal Security Service and Its Structure Russian Federation Presidential Edict No 806 - 06 July 1998

Other Material

Results of the work of the KGB in investigating authors of anonymous materials of a hostile nature - Committee of State Security of the USSR March 21, 1988 No. 458-Ch
Russia-CIS: Does the West's Position Need Modification? Foreign Intelligence Service September 1994
NATIONAL INFORMATION POLICY AND PRACTICE UNEP/GRID-Arendal 1995
Russia WORLD FACTBOOK OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS Ilya V. Nikiforov - 1995
Latest Data on the Performance of Internal Affairs Agencies and Internal Troops in 1996 Ministry of Internal Affairs - MVD - 20 February 1997
On the inadmissibility of violating universal principles and norms of international humanitarian law with regard to the impoverished population of Abkhazia - Resolution of the State Duma No.1640-II GD - June 24,1997

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The severity of Russian law
is surpassed only by the
laxity of its enforcement.