Ministry of Defense: in 2005, 110 thousand draftees were exempted from service due to psyche disorders
In 2005, under an article on mental disorders from military service, about 110 thousand draftees were released, said Valery Kulikov, chairman of the Central Military Medical Commission of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. "In the first place among diseases of the draft contingent, according to which citizens are exempted from military service, there are currently psychoneurological disorders.