Murder in Russian law

According to the modern Russian Criminal Code, only intentional killing of another human is considered as a murder. The following types of murder are defined:

Murder per se :
* common corpus delicti. Punished with a sentence between 6 and 15 years
* qualified corpus delicti. Punished with a sentence between 8 and 20 years, life sentence, or death penalty. Aggravating circumstances:
Privileged types of murder:
* Of newborn child by mother, punished with a sentence up to 5 years.
* In effect state, up to 3 years .
* Exceeding reasonable level of self-defense, up to 2 years.

There are some other articles of criminal code, that provide special punishment for crimes connected with intentional kills:

seizure of hostages;
terrorism;
sabotage;

- punished with a sentence between 15 and 20 years, or life.

genocide;
encroachment on person on public or government duty;
encroachment on law officer or soldier;
encroachment on person administering justice or engaged in a preliminary investigation.

- punished with a sentence between 12 and 20 years or life sentence.
Separately considered actions that cause unpremeditated death of another person:

accident killing ;
death in a traffic accident

Assault that has no purpose to kill, but causes a death of victim, formally is not considered as a murder, but punishment for it almost not distinguished from common murder.
Article 110 of the criminal code also provides punishment for driving a person to suicide.