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or by deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or to engage in a particular activity, or by removal from position, or by application of measures of social action.

Article 95. Extortion of state or public property

Demanding the transfer of state or public property, or of the right to use, under threat of violence to the person responsible for the management or custody of such property, or violence to his intimates, or publicizing defamatory information concerning him or his intimates, or destroying their property (extortion)—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed four years.

Article 96. The petty appropriation of state or public property

The petty appropriation of state or public property by means of theft, fraud, peculation, embezzlement, or abuse of official position, when committed by a person who hes already been subjected to measures of social action for petty appropriation, or who, although he has not been subjected to such measures, has committed petty appropriation on more than two occasions, or when committed by a person to whom, by reason of the circumstances of the case, measures of a social action may not be applied—

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

Article 97. The appropriation of state or public property which has been found or which chanced to be in the possession of the guilty party

The appropriation of valuable property known to belong to the state, or to a social organization, which has been found or which chanced to be in the possession of the guilty party—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed six months, or by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one year, or by application of measures of social action.

Article 98. The willful destruction or damaging of state or public property

The willful destruction or damaging of state or public property—

shall be punishable by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed 1,000 rubles, or by imposition of an obligation to make restitution for damage done.

The willful destruction or damaging of state or public property