The State Duma voted to return to the second reading the bill that changes the procedure for conscription for military service, the Faridaily project of journalists Farida Rustamova and Maxim Tovkaylo drew attention to this.
Chairman of the Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov explained the decision by the fact that in the document «it is necessary to correct the date of entry into force.»
Deputies proposed amendments to the bill on military service last year. According to its latest version, subpoenas to citizens of military age will be able to be served not only in person or at work, but also by registered mail, and the subpoena will be considered received on receipt on the day the registered letter is delivered.
As noted by Faridaily, even if the recruit did not receive a registered letter or did not know about it, he will be considered notified. According to the law, he will have to report to the draft board on his own within two weeks.
The deputies, writes Faridaily, «imperceptibly» adopted the amendments in the second reading on February 22, 2022, the third reading was supposed to take place in March last year, but in the end it did not take place.
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This year, the day before the start of the spring conscription, Vladimir Tsimlyansky, a representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, said that military registration and enlistment offices would send subpoenas electronically. At the same time, Yuri Shvytkin, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, told reporters that electronic summonses would be equated with personal delivery. According to him, this is necessary to reduce the number of dodgers.
After that, the head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Viktor Bondarev, eventually clarified that notifications from Russian military registration and enlistment offices in electronic form «are not subpoenas.»
Legislation still provides for only one form of obtaining a summons — in person and against signature.
On March 31, the delete profile button was disabled at the State Services, now this can only be done when visiting the MFC. The Ministry of Digital Finance claimed that the function was canceled “due to the increased cases of hacking into personal accounts, including using social engineering methods, and the subsequent deletion of an account by attackers,” and emphasized that “deleting an account on State Services is not an evasion from military service '.