December 14, early in the morning in the building of the Moscow State Conservatory. PI Tchaikovsky on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, people in police uniforms staged a raid. The students were raised from their beds, then about 50 young people were sent under guard to the military registration and enlistment office.
In the worst traditions of modern times, those who must enforce the rule of law are doing the lawless themselves - full-time students have a respite from service.
In the military registration and enlistment office, the military commission promptly checked the suitability of the young people. From the students who stated that they had a delay or they were found unfit for health reasons, the commission demanded to present supporting documents, then, since the young men who were raised from bed could not show anything, they were handed summons.
Five students are ordered to appear at the military registration and enlistment office in the coming days for military service. About forty students were kept inside the military registration and enlistment office - they were forced to sign the summons issued for the coming days.
In the afternoon, in connection with the detention of students, the vice-rector for the educational department of the Moscow Conservatory Larisa Slutskaya arrived at the building of the Tver military registration and enlistment office on Mantulinskaya, 24, but neither she nor the lawyer who arrived with her to find out the reasons for the detention of students was not allowed into the building of the military unit.
In a conversation with the head of the department of the military registration and enlistment office Slutskaya, it was stated that summons had been sent to the students, but they did not appear at the military registration and enlistment office. “None of our students deliberately shirks military service, but in order to get a decent professional education and benefit society, all of them must complete their studies at a music university,” Slutskaya said.
Everyone knows that service in the army, which does not give the opportunity to regularly practice the instrument, is destructive for young performers. A number of famous musicians, including pianists Yevgeny Kisin, Alexei Sultanov, had similar problems, were forced to leave Russia and often could not enter their homeland after their draft age. This is a shameful fact in the eyes of the cultural community, nevertheless, everything is repeated.
