Recruits into the Russian army will be drafted for almost the entire year. A bill changing the timing of the conscription campaign was submitted to the State Duma last Friday. According to the document, the conscription will be carried out almost all spring (April-May) and summer (June, July, August), as well as autumn (October-November) and winter (December). In this regard, it will be more difficult to evade military service. Writes about this "Nezavisimaya Gazeta". According to the newspaper, the bill will be considered by parliamentarians and signed by President Medvedev before April 1 of this year, that is, before the start of the spring draft.
The newspaper also notes that difficulties await the soldiers drafted in the spring: the terms of dismissal can stretch up to five months, and the service time for many conscripts may not be 12 months, but almost a year and a half.
The draft federal law "On Amendments to Article 25 of the Federal Law" On Military Duty and Military Service "was initiated by United Russia deputies Viktor Zavarzin, Mikhail Babich and Yuri Savenko. The parliamentarians propose to extend the spring draft to the army until August 31 and reduce the autumn one by one month, that is, to draft recruits into the army not from October 1, but from November 1 to December 31. The government has already approved the proposals of the military deputy lobby, NG notes, referring to the official recall of the bill signed last week by the head of the government's staff Vyacheslav Volodin.
Meanwhile, Volodin suggested leaving the deadline for the autumn conscription of Russian citizens for military service unchanged, "since it seems difficult to carry out measures related to ensuring the attendance of Russian citizens evading military service within two months." The majority of the ruling party will certainly listen to such an amendment. This means that, apart from two months of winter and one month of spring, the conscription into the troops will be carried out almost all year round, the newspaper writes.
According to the initiators of the bill, the document will increase the number of trained sergeants and specialist soldiers by 1.5 times, which will lead to "an increase in combat readiness." It is worth noting that the amendments have not yet been considered, but in the army, almost all training units, military units and centers have already switched to an accelerated three-month training of sergeants and specialists for the troops.
Former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, deputy from the Communist Party faction Vladimir Komoedov believes that in three months "it is impossible to prepare a competent specialist, especially a sergeant, who, in addition to knowledge of the military profession, must train and command personnel." “In the civilized armies of the world, at least one to two years is given for the training of such specialists,” said Komoedov.
According to the admiral, "to appoint a young, unharmed" sparrow "after a three-month course to the position of sergeant in the army is a profanation of the country's military organization."
This point of view is shared by the chairman of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Trade Union of Servicemen, Captain 1st Rank Oleg Shvedkov. He is convinced that sooner or later "our leaders will come to the understanding that a soldier and a sergeant must serve in the army and navy for at least two years."
Valentina Melnikova, a member of the Presidium of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense, chairman of the Union of Committees of Soldiers 'Mothers of Russia, Valentina Melnikova, in turn, believes that the law initiated by United Russia is associated with a shortage of conscripts and is aimed at tightening local authorities' measures to “catch young men and send them forcibly to military service..
The human rights activist is convinced: “if the draft is extended until December 31, then not a single student will be admitted to a higher educational institution based on the results of the Unified State Exam”.
