Shall not be objects of copyright:

1. official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
2. state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
3. works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
4. news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).

Comment – This license tag is also applicable to official documents, state symbols and signs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (union level^[*]).

Warning – This license tag is not applicable to drafts of official documents, proposed official symbols and signs, which can be copyrighted.

[*] – The official documents, state symbols and signs of 14 other Soviet Republics are the subject of law of their legal successors.