On the siding – Newspaper Kommersant No. 47 (7492) dated 03/21/2023
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Two weeks before the start of the planned spring conscription for military service, information appeared on social networks and the media about the delivery of subpoenas to those liable for military service in more than 40 regions of Russia. The addressees of the invitations, the military registration and enlistment offices themselves, officials and lawyers explained that the military registration and enlistment offices called citizens “for data verification”, including in connection with the work on the digital database of military registration, which President Vladimir Putin instructed to create by April 2024. In a number of cases, those liable for military service were called to participate in military training. In addition, as part of a planned call-up, military enlistment offices prefer to call citizens in advance with subpoenas, including in order to clarify their legal status (for example, the basis for a delay).
The planned spring draft for military service should begin in Russia in ten days, on April 1. The presidential decree on conscription is usually signed on the eve of the start of the campaign – a year ago this happened on March 31st. On the official portal explain.rf it is reported that this time the spring conscription will last until July 15; The Ministry of Defense has not yet disclosed plans for the number of conscripts, however, as a rule, about 120-130 thousand recruits are sent to the troops in one conscription campaign – this was exactly the result of the previous conscription, which took place in the fall of 2022. Traditionally, the autumn conscription begins on October 1, however, the partial mobilization announced by the president exactly six months ago, from September 21, has shifted the start of planned conscription events to November 1. This time, the military department, apparently, expects to work within the usual calendar framework. The changes in the draft age proposed by the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu and supported by the president (from 21 to 30 years old, and not from 18 to 27) are still being considered by legislators and will not be applied to this call: as previously reported by Kommersant, they plan to change the draft age in stages: the upper The bar will be raised to 30 years in 2024, the lower one will then be raised to 19, a year later to 20, and in 2026 to 21.
Before the start of the draft, the military commissariats, as a rule, send summonses to citizens of military age, including in order to clarify their legal status – for example, to check the grounds for a delay. “Citizens are called in advance during the period of preparation for the call,” explained Kommersant and the Moscow military commissariat, “for examination, medical examination, submission and execution of the necessary documents.”
A few weeks before the expected start of the draft campaign, numerous messages began to appear in the media and social networks about the distribution of subpoenas that were not related to the planned draft. Such reports were received, in particular, from the Voronezh region, after which the regional government explained: the subpoenas are handed over to those in the reserve “for updating the data” of military records. After that, it became known about the distribution of subpoenas to those liable for military service in the Penza region: there, citizens were summoned, in particular, to participate in military training. Messages about agendas for clarification of data and for collections came from other regions; in the Kaluga region, some deputies were summoned to the military registration and enlistment office. According to Kommersant’s source in the government of one of the regions of the Central Federal District, the subpoenas were handed over to citizens who had served in the army: military registration and enlistment offices, according to Kommersant’s interlocutor, should not only verify the data in their databases about those who have already served, but also clarify whether the their marital status and whether there are any medical indications that preclude conscription or affect its category.
The military registration and enlistment offices of the Krasnodar Territory, Kalmykia and Dagestan also announced the update of accounting data. The military registration and enlistment office of the Irkutsk region recalled that “a summons can be sent to a citizen at any time and for any reason – about clarifying credentials, calling for a military registration commission, and so on.” The administration of one of the districts of St. Petersburg also referred to the need for reconciliation and updating of data, emphasizing that there was no question of mobilization. The military registration and enlistment office of the Nizhny Novgorod region, where they also verify accounting data, noted that the agenda creates a basis for paying a working day to employed citizens.
The need for data reconciliation in the Nizhny Novgorod region was associated with the process of digitalization of military records. This was also stated by the military commissar of the Lipetsk region Valery Gerasimenko, who back in January warned citizens about the possibility of serving the relevant subpoenas. It should be noted that in November last year, Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Defense, together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Federal Tax Service, to create a digital database of military records by April 1, 2024. “We have digitized 100% of the database of our citizens,” military commissar Gerasimenko reported in January, talking about updating data “by calling citizens to the military registration and enlistment offices.” “We are waiting for changes in legislation in order to receive information from other federal departments in an automatic digital mode,” he noted.
The summonses for military training received by citizens of several regions in the military registration and enlistment offices are also explained by regular planned work. Part of the lawyers interviewed by Kommersant notes that military training is impossible without a corresponding presidential decree. According to Art. 54 of the law “On military duty and military service”, military training is held annually with the participation of soldiers and reserve officers (as a rule, privates and sergeants under the age of 35, junior officers – up to 50 years, and senior officers – up to 55 years) and cannot last more than two months. In Art. 55 of the law there is a list of persons who are not subject to collections: among them, in particular, citizens with three or more minor children, students, as well as persons booked by local authorities and organizations for the period of mobilization. The number of participants in the fees varies, as well as the dates of their holding. The presidential decree on fees was signed in 2021 on February 19, in 2022 on April 25.
In a number of regions, “Kommersant” confirmed the holding of training camps: “These are training test camps in order to check the availability and readiness of citizens,” said “Kommersant” the head of the department for planning, designating, preparing and accounting for mobilization resources of the military registration and enlistment office of the Ulyanovsk region, Lieutenant Colonel Artem Rostovshchikov. every year, in any setting. According to him, “this is planned work”, which will last “no more than ten days” in most regions of the Russian Federation. Mr. Rostovshchikov did not comment on the number and selection criteria of those called up for the training camp, citing “classified information”, but noted that the military registration and enlistment office in this case acts on the basis of instructions from the commander of the troops of the Central Military District. The Ministry of Defense did not respond to Kommersant’s request for military training. The military commissariat of the Nizhny Novgorod region reported that subpoenas for planned military training are handed in on the basis of the law on the mobilization human reserve, a presidential decree is “not required” to call up reservists, the institution noted.
Representatives of the military registration and enlistment offices of the Saratov and Penza regions, as well as the Republic of Mari El, also confirmed the information about the training camp. Military Commissar of the Penza Region Andrey Surkov at a briefing on March 16 said that the department “has a presidential decree on holding training camps with assigned staff”: “They are held annually. The military commissariats receive a plan for holding training camps with assigned staff. They can be both training and retraining. Now there are training camps at the base in Leonidovka with assigned staff and monthly training with officers at the base of the military academy of logistics. According to him, 140 people went to the training camp. Aleksey Zakharov, head of the mobilization department of the Saratov Regional Military Commissariat, told Kommersant that summons for the training camp are not being sent out, since they have “already been sent”; he did not comment on the number of participants in the training camp and the selection criteria.
The administration of the head of Mari El, Yuri Zaitsev, clarified that on February 22, the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces “on the basis of the relevant decree of the President of the Russian Federation” approved a plan for conducting military training camps “in order to train citizens in the reserve” from March 17 to April 26. In particular, for those liable for military service from Mari El, “training camps for the training of officers in military specialties” are held on the basis of the Kazan Higher Tank Command School. The Mari El administration clarifies that “the plan for conducting military training with citizens in reserve” is approved annually, but “in recent years, for a number of reasons, including the pandemic, such training has not really been carried out.”
Aleksey Tabalov, head of the human rights organization School of the Conscript, points out that in previous years the fees were invisible to most citizens. “Those who rode them often suffered nonsense in tents,” says Mr. Tabalov. “Under the current conditions, military training is becoming important – they allow you to train a combat reserve.” At the time of the training, the citizens participating in them acquire the status of military personnel, they are subject to the rights and obligations associated with this status, Mr. Tabalov notes, and participation in the training may lead to a change in military rank or military specialty. According to Art. 54 of the Law “On military duty and military service”, military training is held to check the combat training of reserve servicemen or to learn how to work with new military equipment, military training for other purposes is not allowed.
It should be noted that in recent weeks, authorities have repeatedly stated that a new wave of mobilization of those liable for military service in connection with the conduct of a special military operation is currently “not discussed”. This was stated last week, in particular, by the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.
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