The military commissar of St. Petersburg, Sergei Kachkovsky, on the air of the St. Petersburg TV channel, threatened the Russians who refuse the «mobilization» agendas with criminal cases. The publication “Rotonda” drew attention to this.
“If an employee of the military registration and enlistment office hands a summons to a citizen, he does not have the right to refuse to receive it, because refusal to receive a summons for mobilization carries criminal liability,” Kachkovsky said. “As a rule, our people who notify, <…> draw up an act that the citizen refused to sign the agenda, and transfer it to the competent authorities to hold the citizen accountable,” the military commissar added.
The hotline of the Ministry of Defense previously clarified that failure to appear on the agenda threatens only with an administrative fine of 500 to 3 thousand rubles. However, Kachkovsky argues that «this is old data, because many changes have been made to the legislation.»
The military commissar explained that those who refused the summons «face a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles or imprisonment for up to two years.» Such punishment is provided for by the article on evasion of military and alternative civilian service (328 of the Criminal Code), which has not been amended recently.
According to human rights activists, cases under this article were rare before the mobilization, in addition, the decision of the plenum of the Supreme Court states that it applies exclusively to conscripts.
On September 21, the Federation Council approved amendments that introduce the concepts of «mobilization» and «martial law» into the Criminal Code. It also supplements the article 339 of the Criminal Code with a clause that provides for 5 to 10 years in prison for evading service in the «period of mobilization or martial law». As the lawyers explain, the article can only be applied against those who have already joined the army or are undergoing military training. publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />A dodger's memo. Some advice from human rights activists on how not to fall under mobilization