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 '''Article 258. Violation of established regulations governing internal service'''


 * a) The violation of established regulations governing internal service on the part of a person in the duty section of a unit (apart from guard or watch)—
 * shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from three to six months;
 * b) the same act, under mitigating circumstances—
 * shall be punishable by application of the rules of the Disciplinary Regulations of the Armed Forces USSR;
 * c) the act specified in Item a of the present article, if it has resulted in harmful consequences for the prevention of which the person in question was responsible—
 * shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from six months to two years;
 * d) the act specified in Item c of the present article, when committed in time of war or under combat conditions—
 * shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from one to five years.

'''Article 259. Disclosure of a military secret, or loss of documents containing military secrets'''


 * a) Disclosure of information of a military character constituting a state secret, in the absence of of treason—
 * shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from two to five years;
 * b) the loss of documents containing information of a military character constituting a state secret, or of objects information concerning which constitutes a state secret, by a person to who such documents or objects were entrusted, if such loss was the result of a violation of established regulations for handling such documents or objects—
 * shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from one to three years;
 * c) the acts specified in items a and b of the present article if they have caused serious consequences—
 * shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from five to ten years;
 * d) disclosure of military information which is classified, but which does not constitute a state secret—
 * shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for 2 period of from three months to one year;
 * e) the act specified in Item d of the present article, if committed under mitigating circumstances
 * shall be punishable by application of the rules of the