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State of Necessary Defense
The state of necessary defense — when defending the personality and rights of the person defending or other persons, legally protected interests of society or the state from a socially dangerous attack, if this attack was accompanied by violence dangerous to the life of the person defending or another person, or an immediate threat of such violence1.
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation dated 13.06.1996, as amended on 2002-03-14, Article 37, paragraph 1 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 1996. No. 25. Art. 2954. ↩