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 exile, banishment, or transfer to disciplinary battalion demonstrates the fact of his reformation by exemplary behavior and an honorable attitude toward labor, the court may, after he has actually served no less than one-half of the sentence assigned, order his conditional pre-term release from punishment are the substitution of a less severe penalty for the unserved portion of the sentence. In this case the convicted person may also be released from extra penalties in the form of exile, banishment, or deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or to engage in a particular activity.

Conditional pre-term release and the substitution of a less severe penalty for the unserved portion of the sentence may be applied, after the factual serving of no less then two-thirds of the sentence imposed by the court, in the case of persons convicted for especially dangerous crimes against the state (articles 64-73), banditry (Article 77), mass disturbances (Article 79), damaging ways and means of communication and transportation facilities (Article 96), the manufacture or sale of counterfeit coins or currency (Article 87), the theft of state or public property in large amounts (Article 89, third part; Article 90, third part; Article 22, third part; Article 93, third part), robbery under aggravating circumstances (Article 90, second part; Article 145, second part), assault with intent to rob (articles 91 and 146), the premeditated destruction or damaging of state or public property, or the personal property of citizens, under aggravating circumstances (Article 98, second part; Article 149, second part), premeditated homicide (articles 102 and 103), the premeditated infliction of serious bodily injury (Article 108), rape under aggravating circumstances (Article 117, parts two and three), the excessive exercise of authority or official powers under aggravating circumstances (Article 173, second part), the taking of a bribe under aggravating circumstances (Article 173, second part), instigating the criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent (Article 176, second part), issuing a clearly unjust sentence, decision, order, or ruling resulting in serious consequences (Article 177, second part), eliciting testimony by means of coercion under aggravating circumstances (Article 179, second part), malicious hooliganism (Article 206, second part), insubordination (Article 238, items b and c), resisting a superior compelling him to violate official obligations (Article 240, items b and c), using force with respect to a superior (Article 242).

The same provision applies to persons previously convicted of any of the above-enumerated crimes who have subsequently been convicted of theft under aggravating circumstances (Article 89, second part; Article 144, second part) and to persons previously convicted of theft under aggravating circumstances and