Article 293. Group violation of public order
Organizing group actions that seriously disturb
public order, or significantly disrupt operations
of public transport, any enterprise, institution
or organization, and also active participation
therein,
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months.
Article 294. Riots
1. Organizing riots accompanied with violence
against any person, riotous damage, arson,
destruction of property, taking control of
buildings or construction, forceful eviction
of citizens, resistance to authorities with
the use of weapons or any other things used
as weapons, and also active participation
in riots,
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of five to eight years.
2. The same actions that caused death of people
or any other grave consequences, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of eight to fifteen years.
Article 295. Calls to actions that pose
a threat to the public order
Public calls to riotous damage, arson, destruction
of property, taking control of buildings or
constructions, forceful eviction of citizens,
where these actions pose a threat to the public
order, and also distributing, making or storing
any material of such content, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up to three years.
Article 296. Hooliganism
1. Hooliganism, that is a serious disturbance
of the public order based on motives of explicit
disrespect to community in a most outrageous
or exceptionally cynical manner, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up to three years.
2. The same actions committed by a group of
persons, -
shall be punishable by restraint of liberty
for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for a term up to three years.
3. Any such actions as provided for paragraphs
1 or 2 of this Article, if committed by a
person previously convicted of hooliganism,
or accompanied with resistance to authorities
or a member of the public who carried out
the duty of keeping public order, or to any
other citizens who acted to stop the hooligan
actions, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of two to five years.
4. Any such actions as provided for by paragraph
1, 2 or 3 of this Article, if committed with
the use of firearms, or any cold arms, or
any other thing specially adjusted or prepared
in advance to cause bodily injury, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of three to seven years.
Article 297. Vandalizing a grave
Vandalizing a grave or any other burial place,
or a corpse or a funerary urn, and also stealing
things from a burial place or a corpse, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 100 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up to three years, or imprisonment for
the same term.
Article 298. Spoiling, destruction or impairment
of historical or cultural monuments
1. Willful spoiling, destruction of or impairment
of historical or cultural monuments, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 100 tax-free
minimum incomes, or restraint of liberty for
a term up to three years.
2. The same actions committed in respect of
monuments of special historical or cultural
value, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of two to five years.
3. Any such acts as provided for by paragraph
1 or 2 of this Article, if committed by an
official through abuse of office, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of three to eight years.
Article 299. Cruelty to animals
1. Abuse of vertebrate animals based on cruel
or hooligan motives, and also setting such
animals against one another based on hooligan
or mercenary motives, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months.
2. The same actions committed in the presence
of a young child, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 200 tax-free
minimum incomes, or restraint of liberty for
a term up to two years.
Article 300. Importation, making or distribution
of works that propagandize violence and cruelty
1. Importation into Ukraine for sale or distribution
purposes, or making, storage, transportation
or other movement for the same purposes, or
sale or distribution of works that propagandize
violence and cruelty, and also compelling
others to participate in creation of such
works, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 100 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up to three years, with the forfeiture
of works that propagandize violence and cruelty
and means of their making and distribution.
2. The same actions in regard to motion pictures
and video films that propagandize violence
and cruelty, and also selling works that propagandize
violence and cruelty to minors or disseminating
such works among minors, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 100 to 300
tax-free minimum incomes, or restraint of
liberty for a term up to five years, with
the forfeiture of motion pictures and video
films that propagandize violence and cruelty
and means of their making and showing.
3. Any such acts as provided for by paragraph
1 or 2 of this Article, if repeated, or committed
by a group of persons upon their prior conspiracy,
and also compelling minors to participate
in the creation of works that propagandize
violence and cruelty, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment of three
to five years with the deprivation of the
right to occupy certain positions or engage
in certain activities for a term up to three
years and forfeiture of works, motion pictures
and video films that propagandize violence
and cruelty and means of their making and
showing.
Article 301. Importation, making, sale or
distribution of pornographic items
1. Importation into Ukraine for sale or distribution
purposes, or making, transportation or other
movement for the same purposes, or sale or
distribution of pornographic images or other
items, and also compelling others to participate
in their making, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 50 to 100
tax-free minimum incomes, or arrest for a
term up to six months, or restraint of liberty
for a term up to three years, with the forfeiture
of pornographic images or other items and
means of their making and distribution.
2. The same actions committed in regard to
pornographic motion pictures and video films,
or computer programs, also selling pornographic
images or other items to minors or disseminating
such images and items among them, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 100 to 300
tax-free minimum incomes, or restraint of
liberty for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for the same term, with the forfeiture of
pornographic motion pictures and video films
and means of their making and showing.
3. Any such acts as provided for by paragraph
1 or 2 of this Article, if repeated, or committed
by a group of persons upon their prior conspiracy,
and also compelling minors to participate
in the making of pornographic works, images,
motion pictures, video films, or computer
programs, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment of three
to seven years with the deprivation of the
right to occupy certain positions or engage
in certain activities for a term up to three
years and forfeiture of pornographic items,
motion pictures, video films, computer programs,
and means of their making, dissemination and
showing.
Article 302. Creating or running brothels
and trading in prostitution
1. Creating or running brothels, and also
trading in prostitution,
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or restraint of liberty for
a term up to two years.
2. The same actions committed for gainful
purposes, or by a person previously convicted
of this offense, or by an organized group,
-
shall be punishable by restraint of liberty
for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
3. Any such acts as provided for by paragraph
1 or 2 of this Article, if committed by engaging
a minor, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of two to seven years.
Article 303. Prostitution or compelling
to and engaging in prostitution
1. Systematic prostitution, that is gainful
provision of sexual services, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 50 to 500
tax-free minimum incomes, or community service
for a term up to 120 hours.
2. Compelling to or engaging in prostitution,
that is to provide sexual services for a fee
by use of violence or threats of violence
or destruction or endamagement of property,
or by blackmail or deceit, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 500 to 1000
tax-free minimum incomes, or arrest for a
term up to six months, or imprisonment for
a term of one to three years.
3. Any such acts as provided for by paragraph
1 or 2 of this Article, if committed in regard
of a minor, or by an organized group, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of three to five years.
4. Trading in prostitution, that is creating,
leading or participating in an organized group
which supports activities related to the provision
of paid sex services by males and females
for gainful purposes, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of five to seven years.
Article 304. Engaging minors in criminal
activity
Engaging minors in criminal activity, drinking
alcohol, begging, or gambling, -
shall be punishable by restraint of liberty
for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
