ON COMPULSORY STATE INSURANCE OF LIFE AND HEALTH OF
MILITARY PERSONS, CITIZENS CALLED UP FOR MILITARY PERIODIC
TRAINING, THE RANKS AND COMMANDING OFFICERS OF INTERNAL
AFFAIRS BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, THE STAFF OF
PENITENTIARY FACILITIES AND BODIES AND THAT OF FEDERAL
TAXATION POLICE BODIES
O. A. Belkov
‘The Code of Conduct for Military-Political Aspects of Security’ of OSCE (Organization on Security
and Cooperation in Europe) provides that each participating state will ensure the adoption of
adequate administrative and legal procedures to defend the manpower of all its forces. The Law
‘On Compulsory State Insurance of Life and Health of Military Persons, Citizens Called Up For
Military Periodical Training, the Ranks and Commanding Officers of Internal Affairs Bodies of the
Russian Federation, the Staff of Penitentiary Facilities and Bodies and that of Federal Taxation
Police Bodies’ represents one of the measures aimed at implementing this norm. It determines the
duties of the state to military and equated persons and the terms of their compulsory state
insurance, including the qualification of insured events, the sum of insurance, the procedure and
terms of their payment.
The Law establishes that federal executive bodies which call for military service shall be insurants;
they shall allocate means for these purposes from appropriate budgets. The insurance companies
that have concluded contracts with insurants shall be directly engaged in insurance. The Law lays
down special measures for this activity control (licensing, the financial reliability of an insurant, no
foreign investments in its authorized capital, establishment of supervisory councils). It particularly
specifies the duty of military units to render assistance to insured persons in vindicating and
executing the documents required to take a decision on the payment of insured amounts, as well
as the responsibility of commanders and officials of military units who are guilty of a groundless
refusal to present and issue such documents.
By and large, the Law confirms our country’s qualitative tools of social and legal protection for
military persons. It determines the rules that expand and strengthen military-civil relations in the
country.