RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On ratification of the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol IV) on blinding laser weapons (Protocol IV) Adopted by the State Duma on 18 June 1999 Russian Federation Council of 25 June 1999 Additional Protocol to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons) (Protocol IV), adopted at the Review Conference in Vienna on 13 October 1995. President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 8 July 1999 N 153-FZ