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Act of 3 July 2002 Aviation Law (Journal of Laws of 2022, item 1235, as amended). 

Belarussian legal acts

Constitution of the Republic of Belarus 1994 (with amendments and additions adopted in republican referenda on 24 November 1996, 17 October 2004 and 27 February 2022).

Aviation Code of the Republic of Belarus of 16 May 2006 no. FR 117-Z.

Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus of 9 July 1999 no. 275-З.

Other documents

Indictment USA vs. Leonid Mikalaevich Churo, Oleg Kazyuchits, Andrey Anatolievich LNU (last name unknow), and FNU LNU (first name unknown, last name unknown).

Report of the ICAO Fact-Finding Investigation, Event involving Ryanair flight FR4978 in Belarus airspace on 23 May 2021.

Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts 2001. Text adopted by the Commission at its fifty-third session, in 2001, and submitted to the General Assembly as a part of the Commission’s report covering the work of that session.