Putin Signed A Law On Year-round Conscription Into The Russian Army
- 4.11.2025, 20:44
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Russia's dictator Vladimir Putin has signed a law introducing year-round conscription into the army. According to the document, which was approved by the State Duma on Oct. 28 and the Russian Council of Federation on Oct. 29, from 2026, army selection events will take place from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, not only during seasonal campaigns, as now, The Moscow Times reports.
Sending recruits to Russian troops will still take place from April 1 to July 15 and from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 during the spring and fall conscription. However, draft commissions and medical commissions in military commissions will work all year round.
The law also establishes a deadline for appearing at the military commission after the electronic summons has been placed in the register - 30 days. In addition, if a conscript has lost the right to deferment or has not received a summons before the start of the seasonal shipment to the troops, he is obliged to appear at the military enlistment office within two weeks from the start of this period for data verification. At the same time, draft commissions may make a decision on deferment or exemption from conscription in absentia.
The law establishes new deadlines for submitting applications for replacement of military service with alternative civilian service. Now a draftee must apply in advance - before April 1 in the case of the fall draft and before October 1 in the case of the spring draft.
The authors of the amendments - the head of the State Duma's defense committee Andrey Kartapolov and his first deputy Andrey Krasov - claim that the new measures will make it possible to "evenly distribute the load" on Russian military commissions and "improve the quality of the draft." In reality, the new format "means constant activity of military commissions, which creates conditions for continuous raids, delivery of summonses and pressure on conscripts throughout the year," the "Go to the Forest" project noted.