Criminal Law Protection of Water Resources in Tajikistan: Historical and Legal Analysis
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The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the formation and development of criminal law protection of water resources at various historical stages of Tajikistan's development. Based on the analysis of pre-revolutionary legal traditions, norms of Muslim law, religious precepts of the Avesta and Sharia, as well as customs and sanctions of ancient societies, it is shown that water has long been regarded as a sacred and socially significant value requiring special protection. The second section of the article examines the transformations in the legal regulation of water protection after the October Revolution. It is shown that in the conditions of revolution and civil war, the issues of water protection activities receded into the background, but later they were reflected in the criminal legislation of Soviet Russia, the Uzbek SSR and the Tajik SSR. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the Criminal Code of the Tajik SSR of 1935, which for the first time included a special chapter "Crimes on water".
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