Deputies proposed allowing conscription to serve in the FSB – Kommersant

For the second reading of the bill on the right of the Russian Guard to form volunteer detachments, State Duma deputies introduced amendments that allow military service upon conscription in the Federal Security Service (FSB). Amendments There is State Duma electronic database.

In paragraph 3 of Art. 36 of the Law “On Military Duty and Military Service” states that citizens undergo military service upon conscription in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as in state security agencies and other troops. The amendment supplements this list with FSB bodies. Persons recognized as foreign agents will not be able to serve as conscripts in the FSB, as follows from the amendments.

According to the amendments, the Russian Guard will be able to form volunteer detachments by analogy with the Ministry of Defense. Volunteers in such formations will be exempt from paying personal income tax, as well as state duties. Criminal and administrative liability is also being introduced for the dissemination of false information about the activities of such units of the Russian Guard.

One of the authors of the initiatives, deputy Alexander Khinshtein, wrote in Telegramthat the amendments are not related to reports of the inclusion of former units of the Wagner PMC into the Russian Guard.

Last October, conscript soldiers were allowed to serve in the FSB agencies under contract. The contract can be concluded by conscripts who received secondary vocational education before conscription, as well as by men who are not in the reserves and who have received secondary vocational education.

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Anastasia Larina