- of civil procedure;
- 5) releasing the minor to the strict custody of his parents or to persons acting in loco parentis;
- 6) releasing the minor, for purposes of surveillance, to a collective of workers or to a social organization, with their agreement, or to individual citizens at their request;
- 7) placement in a special educational or therapeutic and educational institution for children and adolescents;
- 8) transfer of the minor to an educational colony for minors.
The periods, procedure, and conditions for keeping minors in educational colonies and Special therapeutic and educational institutions are governed by the Decree on Commissions for Minors.
SPECIAL PART
Chapter One
Crimes against the State
I. Especially dangerous crimes against the state.
Article 64. Treason
a) Treason; that is, an act intentionally committed by a citizen of the USSR which is damaging to the state independence, territorial inviolability, or military power of the USSR: defection to the enemy, espionage, communicating a state or military secret to a foreign state, flight to a foreign country or refusal to return from a foreign county to the USSR, assisting a foreign country in carrying on hostile activity against the USSR, or plotting with a view to seizing power—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom of a period of from ten to 15 years, with confiscation of property, or both, with confiscation of property.
b) Citizens of the USSR who have been recruited by a foreign intelligence network to carry on hostile activity against the USSR shall not be subject to criminal liability, provided they committed no acts in the execution of the criminal task assigned to them, and provided they voluntarily reported their connection with the foreign intelligence network to organs of the government.
Article 65. Espionage
