In short, war

The State Duma adopted in the second, mainly, and immediately in the third, final, reading, the bill on short -term military contracts. This is reported by Interfax.

The document was prepared by the Ministry of Defense in pursuance of the Decree of Vladimir Putin "On the further improvement of military service in the Russian Federation." On October 14, the government introduced a document to the lower ward . On November 16, he passed the first reading .

According to the current standards, the minimum contract for the soldier, sailor, sergeant and foreman is two years, and for the ensign, midshipman and the officer - five years. The new bill provides for contracts for the term “until the termination of circumstances that caused the need to conclude them”, but not less than six months and no more than a year.

Short -term contracts are supposed to be concluded "only during the period of emergency" or to participate in activities to maintain or restore peace and security or to suppress international terrorist activities outside the territory of Russia. "

These contracts can subscribe to both citizens in reserve and with conscripts.

The Kremlin has been waging a war in Syria for more than a year. The Russian contingent in this country consists, according to the authorities, exclusively of contractors who pay large allowances for a business trip.

At the end of September, Syrian human rights activists reported that over 6 thousand Russian military arrived in the previous four weeks in Muhafaza Haleb (Aleppo). At the same time, RBC assessed the number of Russian military in Syria in 4-5 thousand people.

In early December, it became known that500 military police officers flew out in Syria from the base in Hankal, the suburbs of Grozny. The backbone of the unit was stated, former employees of the east and west special forces disbanded several years ago. At the same time, the security forces were transferred to the military police only at the end of November.

In addition, contrary to the statements of the authorities, hundreds of mercenaries from the private military company Wagner are also fighting in the Middle Eastern country. On December 9, Wagner (Dmitry Utkin) and his deputy Andrei Troshev were among Putin's guests at the Kremlin reception organized on the occasion of the "Heroes of the Fatherland Day". Troshev had a golden star of the Hero of Russia on his jacket, despite the fact that at the time of dismissal from a police colleague in 2014 he did not have such a title. It was suggested that the commander of the mercenaries received the award for participating in the capture of Palmyra in March of this year.