
In St. Petersburg, after a two -day police raid, more than 100 people were detained and delivered to the military enlistment offices for registration with Sofia Vegetable Basis. This was reported by Kommersant and Fontanka.
The purpose of the raid was to verify compliance with migration legislation, while the sending of people to the military enlistment offices in the police was called the "new option" during such inspections. “Taking this opportunity, the police do not miss the possibilities of additional education of Russians,” the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region said .
In total, the police checked the documents from several hundred people, most of them are foreign citizens. It is claimed that 55 of them were in Russia in violation of migration legislation. About 100 people who were sent to the military enlistment offices are natives of other countries who recently received Russian passports and did not take up military registration.
The head of the Presidential Council under the President Valery Fadeev, in connection with the raid, said that when issuing a Russian passport entering into citizenship, it is necessary to immediately put them on military registration, since "new citizens of Russia must have not only rights, but also obligations," including "protect their homeland."