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In Yamalo-Nenets, families of service members convicted of going AWOL will be denied free legal assistance. Those killed are often declared AWOL to avoid paying compensation

Dmitry Artyukhov, governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, has signed a law under which participants in the war against Ukraine and their relatives lose access to some free legal assistance if the service member is convicted of going AWOL or desertion, The Insider found. The document was published on the legal information portal.

The law generally expands the list of services that the district’s state legal bureau and lawyers provide free of charge to war participants and their families. They will receive help establishing legal facts and reinstating a missed deadline for accepting the inheritance of a service member who was killed or declared dead. Lawyers will also represent them in courts and government agencies in disputes over benefits and compensation, and represent relatives in cases to have a service member declared missing or dead.

However, if the legal bureau or lawyers receive information that a court ruling under Articles 337 or 338 of the Criminal Code has entered into force, this assistance ends for both the service member and their family. The law states:

“The provision of free legal assistance to them and their family members in the cases defined by parts 3-3 and 3-4 of this article shall cease upon receipt of such information.”

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In Yamalo-Nenets, families of service members convicted of going AWOL will be denied free legal assistance. Those killed are often declared AWOL to avoid paying...

Dmitry Artyukhov, governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, has signed a law under which participants in the war against Ukraine and their relatives lose the right to...