Constitution

Texts

Constitution Ex-S.S.S.R. 1936 abstract

Constitution 1993 abstract

Constitution 2001 

Religious Communities

International agreements

Cooperation Agreement between the Diocese of Moscow, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ministry of Health of the Moscow region in 2010 

Statutes and internal rules

Orthodox Church 1945 – amended in 1961

Statute of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical faith (Pentecostals) 2007

Regulatory framework on the relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and non-orthodox Christianity 2008

Statute of the Russian Orthodox Church adopted by the Council of Bishops in 2000, updated to 2017

Statute of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarchate of Moscow 1990

Statute of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarchate of Moscow 2013

Statute of the russian bishops’ conference 1999 

Laws and Decrees

Decree religious associations 1929 -1932

Decree of separation church State 1918

Decree on religious groups in 1929

Decree on Religious Tolerance 1905

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on the administrative liability for violation of legislation on religious cults 1966

Leligious freedom law 1997

Religious freedom law 1997 – changes in 2008

Religious freedom law amended in 2006

Law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations 1990

Amendments to the law on religious freedom on March 2015

Amendments to the law on religious freedom on July 2015

Amendments to the law on religious freedom on November 2015

Amendments to the law on religious freedom in 2016

Russian Orthodox Church – regulation for the election of Patriarch of Moscow and of all Russia 2013

Russian Orthodox Church – on the religious Ministry and Catechetical education 2011

Russian Orthodox Church – on the religious assistance in jails 2013

Russian Orthodox Church – on the laity of non-monastic unmarried people 2011

Russian Orthodox Church – on the organization of juvenile work 2011

Russian Orthodox Church – on the organization of missionary work 2011

Russian Orthodox Church – regulation on the composition of the Local Council 2013

Russian Orthodox Church – on public blasphemy and slander against the Church 2011

Russian Orthodox Church – on the principles of social work organization 2011

Russian Orthodox Church – on the problems related to ecology 2013

Russian Orthodox Church – on family reform and on juvenile justice issues 2013

Russian Orthodox Church – on the development of new accounting technologies and personal data processing 2013

Declaration of the consecrated Episcopal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church on life and issues related to indigenous minorities 2011

Public activity of Orthodox Christians 2011 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Circular on the implementation of the law on religious communities in 1931

Circular on the separation of church and state in 1918

Education of the People’s Commissariat for Justice on the implementation of the decree “on the separation of church and state and the school from the Church” 1918

Guidelines for parishes and monasteries to face the Covid-19 emergency, 2020

Bodies and Church Properties

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Decree on land ownership in October 1917

Law on cultural heritage, historical and cultural memorials belonging to the peoples of the Russian Federation 2002

Construction of Worship And Urban Planning

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Circular on the taxation of places of worship and ministers in 1931 

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Laws and Decrees

Regulation on material and social support to ecclesiastical priests and workers of religious organizations of the Russian Orthodox Church

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Cemeteries

Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars about the management of cemeteries 1918

Federal law no. 8/1996 on burials and funerary affairs

Decree no 271/1918 of the Council of the popular Commissioners 1918 on cemeteries and funerals

Pandemic

Ordinance for the closure of the Churches located in Saint Petersburg 2020                        Original document

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Cooperation Agreement between the Diocese of Moscow, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ministry of ‘Education of the Moscow region in 2001

Ordinance teaching religion 1918

Laws and Decrees

Federal Law on education in 2012 

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Codes

Criminal code 1961 art 142

Decree application art 142 penal code 1961

Current criminal code (english language)

Current criminal code abstract

Amendments to the Criminal Code abstract 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Regulations of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the Criminal Executive System in 2013

Provision of the civil code

Codes

Amendments to the civil code abstract 

Family

Laws and Decrees

Federal law on helth protection of the citizenship in 1993

Federal law for the protection of health, reproductive health and termination of pregnancy 2011 abstract

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on the abolition of the prohibition of abortion 1955

Federal law for the protection of health and prohibition of euthanasia 2011 abstract

Administration Policies and Procedures

Laws and Decrees

Amendments to the Administrative Code abstract

Amendments to the Federal Law “Against Terrorism” abstract