Volodin proposed to make military service mandatory for officials and deputies

At the very first meeting of the State Duma in 2023, Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suggested that the deputies think about changes that are quite in line with the spirit of the times. The chairman of the lower house of parliament, judging by his speech, sees the future of the Russian political and administrative system something like this: Accounting Specialty and Service in the Armed Forces.

Volodin made the reservation that we could talk about the future, and did not specify what types of service and for how long he was talking about, because not all high-ranking managers served in the Armed Forces. The speaker of the State Duma himself, as the Telegram channel of the lower house of parliament reported, from the third year he studied at the military department of the Saratov Institute of Agricultural Mechanization named after. M. I. Kalinin (SIMSH) majoring in mechanical engineering, and after the fourth year he passed military training, took the oath and has the rank of lieutenant. “Over the subsequent time, as a reserve officer, he took courses at the military university. Today, a colonel in the reserve,” the message says.