University students are now planned to be drafted into the army not en masse, but in their specialties. First of all, economists and lawyers, who are already divorced in the country. But applicants for technical specialties may be given deferrals from conscription. The initiators of this idea were the Committees of the State Duma for Education and Defense. The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Education, of course, support this proposal, but the Kremlin has not yet given the go-ahead for this idea. Also, the draft law has not been submitted for approval to the State Duma.
Thus, there is no clear list of the professions themselves, which are recognized as "superfluous", and from which the armed forces will rid the labor market. The legislators will determine this issue already in the process, as they say, at their discretion. But the long-suffering financiers-lawyers have already been mentioned. And how many more different "useless" dancers, managers of all stripes and philologists. But a variety of design engineers will be kept as far away from service as possible. At the same time, they are offered to give a deferment from the draft right up to October 1. So techies can safely continue their education.
If we take into account that any army for the most part needs technical specialists, and not all kinds of "thinkers", then the logic of this bill is rather strange. Although, based on past experience, draft campaigns in Russia are always for some reason focused on quantity, ignoring quality. So everything is fine with this bill. Especially since the president has repeatedly complained about an oversupply of lawyers, in March of this year he said directly about the deferrals for vocational school graduates who wish to continue their technical education in universities. According to some estimates, more than 30 thousand “deferred” graduates can graduate from vocational schools. In the event that the bill is supported by parliamentarians and it enters into force, then humanitarianists will have to clean their boots and potatoes, so that the rest are discouraged to choose new fashionable professions.
