RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW About the ratification of the Legal Assistance Convention and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Cases Accepted State Duma on 21 July 1994 approved by the Federation Council on 27 July 1994 Ratify the Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters, signed in Minsk January 1993. President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 4 August 1994 N 16-FZ