(6) the commission of an offense against a minor, an elderly or helpless person; (7) the commission of an offense against a woman who, to the knowledge of the culprit, was pregnant; (8) the commission of an offense against a person who was in a financial, official or other dependence on the culprit; (9) the commission of an offense through the use of a minor, a person of unsound mind or mentally defective person; (10) the commission of an especially violent offense; (11) the commission of an offense by taking advantage of a martial law or a state of emergency or other extraordinary events; (12) the commission of an offense by a generally dangerous method; (13) the commission of an offense by a person in a state of intoxication resulting from the use of alcohol, narcotic, or any other intoxicating substances; 2. Depending on the nature of an offense committed, a court may find any of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, other than those defined in subparagraphs (2), (6), (7), (9), (10), and (12), not to be aggravating, and should provide the reasons for this decision in its judgment. 3. When imposing a punishment, a court may not find any circumstances, other than those defined in paragraph 1 of this Article, to be aggravating. 4. If any of the aggravating circumstances is specified in an article of the Special Part of this Code as an element of an offense, that affects its treatment, a court shall not take it into consideration again as an aggravating circumstance when imposing a punishment. Article 68. Imposition of punishment for unconsummated criminal offense and offense committed in complicity 1. For the purposes of imposition of punishment for an unconsummated criminal offense, a court, while being guided by Articles 65-67 of this Code, shall consider the degree of gravity of a person's act, the degree of consummation of the criminal intent, and the reasons for which the offense was not consummated. 2. For the purposes of imposition of punishment upon accomplices in a criminal offense, a court, while being guided by Articles 65-67 of this Code, shall take into account the nature and the degree of each person's participation in the criminal offense. Article 69. Imposition of a punishment milder than prescribed by the law 1. In presence of several circumstances mitigating the punishment and significantly decreasing the degree of gravity of the offense committed, having regard to the character of an offender, a court may, by providing the reasons for its judgment, impose, for a specially grave, grave or medium grave offense, a primary punishment lower than the lowest threshold prescribed by a sanction of an article in the Special Part of this Code, or change to another, milder type of primary punishment, which is not prescribed by a sanction of the article