Kartapolov said that the issuance of electronic summonses is not provided for by law

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, said that Russian law does not provide for the delivery of subpoenas through Gosuslugi. This is how he reacted to the statement by Yuri Shvytkin, deputy head of the State Duma Defense Committee, that deleting an account on Gosuslugakh would be equated with evading military service.

“In our current law, there are no agendas through the State Services. If there are changes to the law, then we will talk about it. There is nothing like this today,” Mr. Kartapolov said in a comment. Ura.ru.

In turn, the head of the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications of the State Duma, Alexander Khinshtein, noted that the law does not oblige a citizen to have an account on the State Services and does not prohibit deleting it. “There is no responsibility for this and is not expected,” Alexander Khinshtein pointed out in his Telegram channel.

He agreed with the position of Senator Andrei Klishas on this issue, stressing that “he is absolutely right.” The senator wrote in his Telegram channel that he did not know such norms of the law, and the procedure for serving subpoenas in Russia remains the same.

Earlier today, March 31, Rear Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, head of the main organizational and mobilization department of the Russian General Staff, said that summonses for the spring conscription will be sent electronically through the State Services. Following this, Yuri Shvytkin declaredthat the distribution of an electronic notice will be equivalent to the personal service of the subpoena.

Later head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev emphasizedthat, according to the law, the conscript is obliged to receive a summons against receipt, and an electronic method of obtaining it is not provided.

Meanwhile, from the help page on “State Services” gone a button to delete an account, as well as instructions for deleting it. The support service reported that this function was removed at the request of the Ministry of Digital Development. Later in the department explainedthat the solution is related to hacking user accounts.

Lusine Balasyan