Ministry of the Office of the Union Government (Myanmar) Ministry of the Office of the Union Government (Myanmar) The Ministry of the Office of the Union Government is a ministry-level body that serves the Government of Myanmar. Htun Htun Oo, Union Attorney General, posted a bill from the president to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw for the formation of two new ministries on 20 November 2017. As regards the duties and responsibilities of the Union Government, the Secretary of the Union Government, Director-General of the Office of the Union Government is carrying out, submitting it to the President. The Union Government is performing numerous of tasks including matters on the administration
Capital punishment in the Soviet Union Capital punishment in the Soviet Union Capital punishment was a legal penalty in the Soviet Union for most of the country's existence. The legal justification of capital punishment was found in Article 22 of the Fundamental Principles of Criminal Legislation, which stated that the death penalty was permitted "as an exceptional measure of punishment, until its complete abolition". According to Western estimates, in the early 1980s Soviet courts passed around 2,000 death sentences every year, of which two-thirds were commuted to prison terms. The death penalty was not applied to minors or pregnant women. The first person to be sentenced