Russian military registration and enlistment offices, together with the leadership of educational institutions, force students to sign consent for early conscription, this will allow young people to be called up in April, and not in the summer, when training ends.
Source: edition “Verstka”
Literally: “The military registration and enlistment offices, in cooperation with the administrations of colleges, began to require graduate students to write applications for early passage of the medical commission and meetings of the draft commission.”
Details: In particular, students are told that they will be able to pass exams ahead of schedule if they sign such applications. Then the students receive a summons with the obligation to appear at the military registration and enlistment office. In the military registration and enlistment office, they undergo a medical examination and go to the army.
But according to Russian law, students receive a deferment from conscription until they graduate, but in 2021, military registration and enlistment offices for the first time began to convince young people to be drafted ahead of schedule.
Human rights activists say that, in particular, Moscow universities and colleges arrange meetings with military registration and enlistment offices, at which students are given subpoenas with the obligation to come with a passport and registration certificate.
The military registration and enlistment offices used their tactics during 2022, but on the eve of the spring conscription in 2023, they again resorted to it.
“They fool the heads of eighteen-year-old boys, who, of course, do not understand the legal consequences of such statements. Under various pretexts, with the help of persuasion and threats, they force them to sign statements,” said Alexei Tabalov, head of the human rights organization Conscript School.
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