Article 35. Justifiable Risk
1. The causation of damage to the interests protected by the present Code shall not be considered a crime in case of a justifiable risk for the achievement of a publicly useful goal.
2. Risk shall be recognised as justifiable if a said goal could not have been achieved by actions (their omission) not associated with the risk, and if a person who admitted a risk undertook sufficient measures for the prevention of damage to the interests protected by the present Code.
3. Risk shall be considered to be justifiable if it was directly associated with a threat to people's life or health, of ecological catastrophe, social disaster, or other serious consequences.
Article 36. Physical or Psychic Coercion
1. The causation of damage to interests protected by the present Code as a result of physical coercion shall not be considered a crime, if as a consequence of such coercion a person could not control his actions (their omission).
2. The issue of criminal liability for the causation of damage to interests protected by the present Code as a result of physic coercion, as well as as a result of physical coercion, as a consequence of which a given person retained the possibility to guide his actions, shall be resolved subject to provisions of Article 34 of the present Code.
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