§ Article 13(untitled)

ircumstances Preventing Referendum Call and Conduct

 1. A referendum shall not be conducted if a martial law or a state of emergency have
been established in the territory of the Russian Federation or in the territory in which the
referendum is to be conducted or within a part of this territory, or within three months after the
martial law or the state of emergency have been removed.

 2. The body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation or the body of local
self-government that under the constitution (statute) or law of the subject of the Russian
Federation or the statute of the municipal formation have the authority to decide on calling a
referendum shall be entitled to refuse calling a referendum only if the regulations governing
preparation and conduct of corresponding referendum were violated in exercising the initiative
to conduct such referendum.

 3. The law of the subject of the Russian Federation, the statute of a municipal formation
may establish a period during which another referendum of the subject of the Russian
Federation, another local referendum with essentially the same wording of the question shall
not be conducted. This period shall not exceed two years from the date on which the results of
the referendum are officially published.

 4. No circumstances other than those indicated in this Article under which a referendum
shall not be conducted shall be established.