Moscow, (EFE)
The law imposes this restriction on those called up from the moment they receive the corresponding notification until they appear at the recruiting office.
Russians have a period of two weeks to appear once they have been notified of their obligation to serve the homeland.
In addition, in the event that the affected person does not go to the enlistment center within a period of 20 days, their driving license, buying real estate or applying for a loan will be temporarily restricted.
From now on, the military will be able to send notifications not only in writing, but also electronically to the citizen’s personal account on the public services portal.
Although 394 deputies approved the motion and only one abstained, the communists denounced having received a document of several hundred pages with the amendments shortly before the vote.
However, the president of the Duma, Viacheslav Volodin, called on all parliamentarians to support the amendments without discussion.
Improve recruitment
According to its authors, the law attempts to correct the numerous mistakes made during the partial mobilization ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which caused the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Russians.
“In our view, these amendments will contribute to social justice. And it is that service in the Armed Forces is not only a sacred duty, but an honorable constitutional obligation”, said Andrei Kartapolov, co-author of the law.
He stressed that the law will allow “those who comply with their duty and obligation to be in the same conditions as those who evade it.”
The document also creates a unique electronic registry of men of military age, so that no one can argue that they did not have proof of having received the official notification.
Although the notification is considered delivered a week after being registered, that did not stop some Russians from already unsubscribing from the public services portal.
The Kremlin denies a second mobilization
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, denied today at a press conference that the approval of this law paves the way for a second mobilization and assured that it is directly linked to the military registry, which, he admitted, must be modernized.
In September 2022, Putin called up 300,000 reservists, although one of the points in his decree is secret, which opens the door to a new mobilization campaign.