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    code included Article 995, which stated that muzhelozhstvo (Russian: мужеложство, 'sodomy'), or men lying with men, was a criminal act punishable by exile...
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    rule that criminalised so-called ‘copulation between men’ (Russian: мужело́жство) was introduced in the Russian Empire in 1832, along with the first collection...
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