In Russia, electronic agendas in the military registration and enlistment office will duplicate traditional ones and will have equal legal force.
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According to Andrey Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, those liable for military service will have two weeks to voluntarily appear at the military enlistment office, after which a ban on traveling abroad and other restrictions will be introduced.
On April 11, State Duma deputies will consider amendments that legalize summonses to the military registration and enlistment office in electronic form.
All subpoenas will have the same legal force. It doesn’t matter how you got this agenda,” Kartapolov said.
According to him, the defense committee proposes to keep traditional paper summonses and notifications through the employer, as well as to introduce notifications for recommended mail and their duplication in electronic form.
Amendments to the bill include “interim measures” for those who are not on the agenda, including electronic ones.
So, if a person does not receive a summons or pretends that he does not receive it, then he will be obliged during the next call within two weeks to voluntarily appear at the military commissariat. If he does not do this, then he will receive a notification, digitally signed by the military commissar, that travel restrictions are being introduced and there will be other restrictive measures, the deputy of the Russian state fool said.
According to him, if the conscript does not appear again, then, according to the amendments, in 20 days he will be banned from driving, concluding real estate transactions, registering individual entrepreneurs, and taking loans.
Kartapolov also said that the military registration and enlistment offices will have a single register of persons liable for military service, which will minimize calls to the military registration and enlistment office to clarify military registration data, RIA Novosti writes.
Last week, on April 6, the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted to reconsider in the second reading a bill that allows sending subpoenas by registered mail, and also obliges conscripts to appear at the military registration and enlistment office without a subpoena.
The document was adopted in the second reading on February 22, 2022, on the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The third reading was scheduled to take place in March 2022 but has been postponed.
In March, the Russian General Staff announced that the military registration and enlistment offices were tasked with notifying citizens “in electronic form” during the draft campaign. On the same day, Gosuslug users noticed that it was no longer possible to delete an account on the site. The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation reported that the account can be deleted at the MFC – and the deletion will not be considered evasion from military service.
Military komats in the Tula and Rostov regions, as well as in Moscow, said they would not send electronic summonses to conscripts. At the same time, for example, in the Vladimir region, the authorities announced that they would completely abandon paper summonses.
Against this background, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Yuri Shvitkin said that an electronic message from the military registration and enlistment offices would be equated to handing the summons in person, which, as Senators Viktor Bondarev, Andrei Klishas and State Duma deputy Andrei Kartapolov noted, do not comply with applicable laws.
Source: Racurs
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