FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION of March 6, 2006 No. 35-FZ
(EXTRACT)
Counteraction against terrorism in the Russian Federation shall be based on the following fundamental principles:
1) ensuring and protecting fundamental civil and human rights and freedoms;
2) lawfulness;
3) priority of the protection of rights and legitimate interests of the persons running the danger of terrorism;
4) inevitability of punishment for the exercise of terrorist activity;
5) systematic approach and complex use of political, informational, propagandistic, socioeconomic, legal, special and other measures of counteraction against terrorism;
6) cooperation of the State with public and religious associations, international and other organizations, as well as with citizens, in counteraction against terrorism;
7) priority of preventive measures against terrorism;
8) undivided authority in directing attracted forces and facilities while conducting antiterrorist operations;
9) combination of public and private methods of counteraction against terrorism;
10) confidentiality of information concerning special means, techniques and tactics of taking measures against terrorism, as well as concerning the composition of their participants;
11) inadmissibility of political concessions to terrorists;
12) reduction to minimum and (or) liquidation of the consequences of terrorist manifestations; 2
13) adequacy of measures aimed at counteraction against terrorism to the degree of terrorist danger.