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Whip for sloppers
What will the amendments to the Law on Military Service turn into
“The army should become professional, and contractors should be its basis,” Vladimir Putin said in his programmatic article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta two weeks before the voting day of March 4. However, the spring call-2012, which started on April 1, should be collected by 20 thousand more soldiers, which was collected in the fall. And for the future it is proposed to amend the law “On Military Service”, tightening the procedure for calling for military service to the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. What it turns out - found out The New Times on March 27 to the State Duma introduced a bill proposed by members of the Federation Council, which obliges the conscripts to come to the military commissariats for the summons. “In case of failure to appear without good reason, the specified citizen is considered evading military service and is held accountable in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation” - such a wording should appear in the Law “On Military Service” and become the “whip”, which, if accepted, begins to whip right and left in the fall of 2012.
Increasing the call of soldiers' soldiers contradicts the intentions of the transition to the contract army
Devillers as “gingerbread” proposed a new military uniform, an increase in allowance to 2 thousand rubles, as well as the extra half an hour of night sleep. However, the Ministry of Defense, obviously, understands that you can’t lure young people in the army: many are not ready to delete a whole year from their lives. To this the legislator decided to answer the well-known formula: "You do not want to be in a good way, it will be in the same way." Do not want to become a little soldiers? O'Kay, you will become criminals. Such a prospect, according to initiative members of the Federation Council, can expect as many as 200 thousand young people who, as members of the upper house believe, evades the army. However, Valentina Melnikova, the head of the Union of Committee of the Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, and with the amendments, and the numbers of the "deviations" categorically disagree. “These amendments are complete idiocy. I don't understand why they are needed at all? She said in an interview with The New Times. “I have a feeling that kulaks, lakes, Serebrennikov and Smirnov (members of the Federation Council who initiated amendments. - The New Times) do not imagine why the call passes and why the agendas are needed.” “Statistics for the autumn appeal: 1580 summons were sent, 1490 people appeared. Someone works or lives somewhere else, someone sits in a pre-trial detention center. On average, 8-10% of those who are called on the summons do not come today, ”says Melnikova, relying on the data of one of the capital's regional residents.
The logic of counting the initiators of the amendments is different: “A significant number of conscripts who do not have legal grounds for deferral or exemption from the draft are undertaken by various ways to avoid service. In particular, a number of citizens do not live at the place of registration, hide information about their whereabouts, refuse to open the doors to receive a summons for receipt. These citizens, actually evading the call and undergoing military service, use the situation in which evasion from receiving the agenda of the military commissariat is often not considered as the fact of evasion from military service, which is persecuted in criminal order, ”the explanatory note to the amendments says. Hence the figure - 200 thousand “slope”.
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The recruiting army is an atavism of the last century
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The crafty figure is new amendments, experts say, markedly untie the hands of the repressive organs. If they are accepted, then everything that is required to recognize the name “Devilonist” is a failure to appear in the district military registration and enlistment office for the agenda within two weeks after the announcement of the start of the draft campaign. Today, in order to start a criminal case under Article 328 of the Criminal Code (evasion of military service), you need to get an attached certificate, pass a medical board and not appear at the assembly point. The military commissariats come further into business: they must prove the “evasion” in court. The maximum punishment - two years of imprisonment - for a year more than the service life in the army. According to the military prosecutor’s office, in 2011 about 50 thousand violations of laws related to the draft were identified, and according to the materials of prosecutorial inspections, 1609 criminal cases were instituted for evasion of military service and a similar number of administrative ones. Obviously, with all assumptions, the figure of 200 thousand “slope”, to which the initiators of the amendments appeal, is a myth.
“The main meaning of these amendments is by intimidation to increase the number of those called up for military service. However, amendments in the proposed form will also be able to increase the number of convicts under Article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and the set goals will not be achieved for exactly the simple reason that the actual number of conscripts suitable for health reasons does not meet the needs of the army, ”said Maxim Burmitsky, head of the Citizen and Army Center for Judicial Protection. The question is: how are the promises to transfer the army to a professional basis? “The recruiting army is the atavism of the last century, which is preserved not only by inertia,” says Burmitsky, “the corruption component is also important - these are bribes that inconsistent citizens and the possibility of uncontrolled waste of funds upon appeal. It is also a good opportunity for the authorities to skip the male population through the school of humiliation and obedience - to crush the frequencies of freedomism. The draft army has not responded to any military needs for a long time, ”he says.
According to the General Staff, there are 1 million people in the Russian army today, 180 thousand of them are contractors. Since January 1, 2012, monetary allowance has doubled: now the private-contractor of the ground forces, taking into account the allowances and additional payments, receives 25–28 thousand rubles. According to the plan by 2013, contractors will be 240.4 thousand people, by 2017 - 425 thousand add about 200 thousand officers to this and take from 1 million people who, according to the Ministry of Defense, are necessary for the army to fulfill the tasks set by it. It turns out that in five years of conscripts there will be about 400 thousand people.
The enemy does not doze off why in peacetime the country needs so many soldiers and why now it is impossible to switch to the contract form of service - as a question of The New Times. It was not possible to get an answer from Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the Committee of the Council of the Federation of Defense and Security, because of the complex schedule and dense employment of the senator. However, The New Times talked with his assistant, Alexander Voronin. “The army is needed, we need to protect the homeland. We have an enemy, unfortunately. Have you heard election speeches in America? They say: "Russia is the enemy." How in such conditions we are without an army? " - he explained, arguing the need to tighten the law.
However, the fate of these amendments is not yet clear. The flurry of criticism seems to have a little cooling the supporters of the dragon measures. However, deputies of the lower house from among the members of the State Duma Committee on Defense and Security said that if these amendments do not pass, others would be accepted to tighten the punishment for evasion in the ranks of the Russian army.
“Day day a day, the Russian state spits on the rights of its citizens, but when it comes to an draft in the army, then the authorities recall the duties of citizens to the state overnight. In cities, raids begin, young people are taken directly from the streets and delivered to the military enlistment offices. And they need amendments to legitimize captures and raids on the streets, ”Fyodor is convinced, the ideological“ blasphemy ”, who, for obvious reasons, asked not to be called his last name. And it recalls that the Constitution of the Russian Federation, its article 59, clause 3, gives the citizen the right to an alternative form of fulfilling his duty to the Fatherland: “A citizen of the Russian Federation in the event that his convictions or religion contradicts military service, has the right to replace its alternative civil service.” The term of the alternative service exceeds 1.5 times the term of military service for conscription. The vacancies here are very diverse, and in some places even outlandish: from the orderal order to the reinforcement of documents, from the restorer of archival and library materials to the carpenter. “So far, the AGS (alternative public service) in the Russian Federation openly skids: now about a thousand people are held, but the prospects for the development of this service are very good,” says Maxim Burmitsky.
“Any such strange initiatives that oblige people, as in the occupying country, to come to the police themselves - all this from disrespect for people,” concludes Valentina Melnikova.