Conscripts in Moscow Were Notified About the Closure of Exit From the Country

They are threatened with criminal liability for failure to report to the military enlistment office

Military enlistment offices in Moscow are sending notices to conscripts that they are subject to restrictions for failure to show up on summons. At first, information about this, without specifying the original source, appeared in Z-resources in Telegram. Several real cases were confirmed to IStories by Artyom Klyga, lawyer of the Movement of Conscientious Objectors (MCO).

The notices state that the conscript is prohibited from leaving Russia and imposed other restrictions in accordance with the amendments to the law “On Military Duty” of 2024. This is a prohibition to dispose of real estate, register self-employment and individual entrepreneurship, obtain an international (transborder) passport, take out loans and register vehicles.

Earlier, banks reported in a letter to the Central Bank that they could not implement economic restrictions under the new law, as the state has not provided technical parameters, information transmission channels and rules for this purpose.

On November 1, the authorities started the second stage of launching the military registry system, and in September the summons system started working in test mode. As the authorities assure, the data from the registers on the country leaving bans are received by the FSB Border Service instantly.

All those who have received notices are asked to come urgently to the collection point of Moscow conscripts on Ugreshskaya Street. At the moment, failure to appear at the military recruitment center on summons is just an offense with a fine of up to 30 thousand rubles.

At the same time, conscripts are already threatened with criminal liability with a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles or a conviction up to two years in prison. Verstka wrote that in 2023–2024, not a single defendant in such cases has not been sentenced to a real term, they were mostly monetary fines of less than 100 thousand rubles.

According to MCO lawyer Artyom Klyga, conscripts began to report such notices only last week. Nothing is known about similar threats from military enlistment offices in other cities.

November 5, Moscow military commissar Maxim Loktev warned about the fact that travel bans and other administrative measures would soon be imposed on conscripts.

Today it also became known that the out-of-town students of Moscow’s Plekhanov Russian Economic University of conscription age, who were not attached to the local military enlistment offices, had their passes cut off and their entrance to the university blocked.

Raids on conscripts continue in Moscow. The day before, police detained a 19-year-old full-time student and forcibly took him to a military enlistment office because facial recognition cameras allegedly identified him as a draft dodger, according to Ostorozhno Media.