Primary sources

Constitutional foundation for the entire DPR legal order, adopted 2014 and revised through March 2020. Underpins every legislative act and executive decree in this collection.

Annexation treaty purporting to incorporate Kherson Oblast into the Russian Federation. Not recognised by Ukraine, the UN General Assembly (143 to 5), the EU, or the US.

Ratification law making the Kherson annexation enter the Russian legal order. Article 3 declares Kherson's borders to be the state border of the Russian Federation.

Decree appointing Vladimir Saldo as Acting Governor on the same day as the ratification law, integrating the occupation administration into the Russian federal executive hierarchy.

Government composition document showing the occupation administration restructured to mirror a standard Russian federal subject, operating from Melitopol while Zaporizhzhia city remains under Ukrainian control.

Five decrees (18 June 2026) rolling out Russian-style "territorial public self-government" bodies across Mariupol districts — approving territory boundaries and registering a charter.

Restates the list of Mariupol officials empowered to issue administrative-offence protocols — including for "obstruction of the lawful activity of local self-government".

Approves the regulation and membership of the commission on municipal servants' official conduct and conflicts of interest, modelled on the Russian federal template.

Decree setting the official average market price per square metre of residential property in Russian-occupied Mariupol for 2026: 146,212 rubles (primary market) and 80,695 rubles (secondary market).

Decree authorising the electronic auction of two non-residential municipal properties on five-year leases under Russian federal competition law.

Decree amending a subsidy scheme to cover wage debt owed to employees of the municipal housing utility enterprise MUP "Mariupolzhilkompleks" for January–February 2026.

Decree authorising the electronic auction of two further non-residential municipal properties on five-year leases under Russian federal competition law.

Complete auction documentation package for the electronic tender of two Mariupol municipal properties via the Russian federal RTS-Tender platform. Application window 15 April–5 May 2026; auction date 7 May 2026.

Approves regulations for receiving investor inquiries and "accompanying" investment projects in Mariupol, modelled on Russia's Regional Investment Standard.

Approves the SME programme: 10,744 SMEs as of Jan 2026 (up 21%, attributed partly to the "free economic zone"), targeting 8,865 registered SMEs by 2028.

Orders the municipal housing-maintenance enterprise "Mariupolzhilkompleks" wound up within a year and appoints a liquidator — months after the administration subsidised its wage arrears (DOC-097).

A 2024 Agency for the Development of Mariupol project to convert the former Azovstal steelworks into a 125-hectare industrial-tourism park billed as the principal industrial monument-museum of Russia.

Full text of the occupation administration's three-year education programme. Total budget RUB 8.76 billion. Objectives explicitly include "patriotic upbringing" and "formation of traditional Russian spiritual-moral values."

DPR education law modelled on Russian Federal Law No. 273-FZ, replacing the Ukrainian curriculum with Russian federal standards and mandating Russian-language instruction.

Foundational DPR conscription statute defining who must serve, grounds for exemption (Article 23, amended by DOC-107), and obligations during mobilisation. Direct statutory basis for DOC-108.

Governs the full cycle of DPR mobilisation planning. Adopted five months before the general mobilisation decree; the direct statutory basis for Decree No. 29 (DOC-108).

Amendment narrowing conscription exemption grounds in the period before the February 2022 general mobilisation. Part of the stepwise pre-invasion tightening of the DPR military duty framework.

Signed by Denis Pushilin five days before Russia's full-scale invasion, declaring general mobilisation and ordering all conscription-age men to report to military commissariats.

Regulations establishing the ZO Ministry of Education under the Russian federal framework: the institutional and legal basis for replacing Ukrainian-language schooling with Russian federal curriculum standards.

LPR counterpart to the DPR conscription amendment (DOC-107): exemption grounds narrowed in the same pre-invasion period, reflecting coordinated Russian oversight of both entities' legislation.

Travel ban preventing conscription-age men from leaving LPR-controlled territory without military commissariat permission. The enforcement corollary of the February 2022 general mobilisation declaration.

Kremlin instructions extending the veterans' welfare and ideological foundation to the four occupied oblasts, running patriotic school programmes and normalising military service across occupied territory.

Spring 2025 call-up targeting citizens born 1995 to 2007. The youngest cohort (born 2007, aged 17–18) are the first generation schooled entirely under the Russian occupation curriculum.

Introduces Foundations of Security and Defence of the Motherland (weapons handling, drone operation, combat first aid) as a mandatory school subject from September 2024. Applies in occupied territories via formal annexation.

Amends the 2026–2028 youth-policy programme: a Rosmolodezh-aligned "Youth Centre", a 75%-by-2028 enrolment target, and "creation and dissemination of anti-terrorist content".

A Rosmolodezh-funded book by the Kherson Oblast branch of Russia's state youth movement, Movement of the First, tying Second World War memory to the narrative of the war on Ukraine.

The September 2025 activity calendar of Russia's state children and youth movement, Movement of the First, setting monthly tasks for children from kindergarten age upward.

The second issue of the Kherson Oblast branch magazine of Russia's state youth movement, distributed free in schools and youth centres, themed on Victory Day and the 'Year of the Defender'.

The third issue of the Kherson Oblast branch magazine of Russia's state youth movement, recording its activity from April to July 2025.

A reference book approved for schools of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, containing 315 biographies of Heroes of the Soviet Union from the Luhansk region.

Step 5 of 10 in the passportisation sequence: simplified citizenship extended to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia residents three months after military seizure and five months before formal annexation.

Procedural framework through which passportisation applications were processed, including the three-month processing timeline and biometric data requirements for applicants from occupied territories.

Russia's Transnistrian passportisation model (operational since the early 2000s): the earliest instance of the policy, used here as a comparator for the Ukraine passportisation sequence.

Amends (22 April 2026) the commission that assigns and changes the names of Mariupol's streets and planning-structure elements — the administrative machinery of toponymic control.

A record of an occupation-legislature lecture recasting the 1654 Pereyaslav Rada as the reunification of Ukraine with Russia.

Decree approving ruble-denominated tariffs for paid services at the occupation administration's municipal sports complex operating across two former Mariupol stadiums.

Decree amending a co-financed programme for capital repair of 21 apartments damaged in what the occupation administration terms "military actions," requiring residents to co-finance their own war damage repairs.

Amends the resident-co-financed war-damage repair programme (see DOC-102), creating a commission to decide which damaged homes qualify for repair.

A redacted contract addendum showing the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) contracted to service the security systems of the "Katyusha" kindergarten in occupied Telmanovsky district.