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Constitution of the Russian Federation (extracts)
Article 23
1) Each person has the right to inviolability of his private life, individual and family privacy, and defense of his honor and good name.
2) Each person has the right to privacy of correspondence, telephone conversations and postal, telegraph and other communications. Limitation of this right is permitted only on the basis of a judicial decision.
Article 24
1) The collection, storage, utilization and dissemination of information about a person's private life without his consent are not permitted.
2) Organs of State power and organs of local self-government and their officials are obliged to ensure that each person has the opportunity to see documents and materials directly affecting his rights and freedoms unless otherwise provided by law.
Article 29
1) Each person is guaranteed freedom of thought and speech.
2) Propaganda or agitation exciting social, racial, national, or religious hatred and enmity is not permitted. Propaganda of social, racial, national, religious, or linguistic supremacy is prohibited.
3) No one may be compelled to express his opinions and convictions or to renounce them.
4) Each person has the right freely to seek, receive, pass on, produce, and disseminate information by any legal method. The list of information constituting a State secret is determined by federal law.
5) The freedom of mass information is guaranteed. Censorship is prohibited.
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