Petersburg resident Ulyana Listyeva , who works as a janitor, told Mediazona that she and other employees of the housing and communal service were again involved in the delivery of subpoenas.
«Mediazona» told the story of Listeva. In April, the manager had already asked her to help deliver summonses to the reservists, because their number had increased dramatically, and she herself could not cope: “She said that she usually receives 20 summonses a month, but now she has received 300.” Since Ulyana opposes the war, she agreed to distribute the summons only to tell the recipients how to refuse to go to the military registration and enlistment office — to explain that the calls to the commissariats were drawn up incorrectly, and to give the contacts of human rights activists.
June 22, Listyeva received a new batch of subpoenas, she was again asked to deliver several dozen notices to the homes she cleans.
According to her, this time the management «orally changed instructions”: the employees were told that they can write “does not live at this address” on the spine of the summons only if the person is really not registered there, that is, the summons was sent by mistake, and the military registration and enlistment office needs to check the database. In the previous instruction, it was enough to write down information from the words of the residents themselves.
“Some kind of idiocy,” Listyeva is indignant. — I am a janitor, how can I find out if they tell me the truth or not? Do I need to make a request to Rosreestr for each apartment? =»1″ />«I don't want to send anyone to war.» An employee of the housing and communal services in St. Petersburg sabotaged the delivery of subpoenas — the janitors were obliged to distribute them
According to her, like last time, mostly the people she went around did not open the doors: either there was no one at home, or, as she suggests, the residents were hiding — “you can see that they are approaching the bell, looking, and then quietly pretended to be a rag and pretended not to be at home.”
Two more women agreed to take the contacts of human rights activists from Listeva — a bot of a coalition of lawyers and experts from Russian human rights organizations for alternative civilian service and the website of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers in St. Petersburg . One man who took the summons said that he would sort it out himself.
“[I took the summons] not because he wanted to fight,” the woman suggests. “An ordinary man opened the door for me. In shorts and a robe. Nothing indecent, but he had a scar from his neck to his underpants. Very wide and straight. And also red, that is, it seems, not very old. I began to babble the usual text about soldiers’ mothers, telegram bots, but he said that he didn’t need any of this — “Give me a summons, I’ll sign it, and I myself can figure it out with the military registration and enlistment office”; — and he knows how to do it very well.”
In Russia, only employees of the military commissariat or local administration are authorized to deliver summonses to conscripts and reservists. However, in practice, they involve people who do not have the right to do this, for example, employees of the housing and communal services sector.
A lawyer who helps conscientious objectors from military service noted in a conversation with Mediazona that which Listeva was instructed, were drawn up incorrectly — they did not indicate the purpose of the call, and the involvement of housing and communal services employees in their delivery was “a typical illegal practice.”