Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported on spring conscription – REGNUM

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Moscow, July 18, 2015, 14:32 – REGNUM The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has reported on the company’s spring conscription Russian forces in 2015. According to the War Department, published on Saturday, July 18, in the spring of 2015 for the passage of military service in the Russian Federation Armed Forces, other troops and military formations were called up and sent 150,145 citizens of the country.

In this , the parents of citizens to be called up for military service were given the opportunity to attend meetings of the draft board, which decides on their sons. The Defense Ministry said that as a result on the draft commission to attend about 10 thousand parents. It also reported that the draft boards attended by over two thousand representatives of civil society organizations on a regular basis.

The Defense Ministry stresses that military service citizens sent, if possible in areas that are close to them residence. In particular this applies to married with children, and the sick and the retirement age of parents.

to the place of service, conscripts delivered by different modes of transport. In the military units stationed in the remote regions of the country, delivery of recruits carried out with the use of military transport aircraft and civil aviation, railway and sea transport. On 14 military echelons sent more than 11 thousand citizens made more than 400 flights civil and military transport aircraft – carried more than 20 thousand new recruits.

Among the conscripts sent to the troops more than 28 thousand people with higher education (19 %). More than 35 thousand citizens, aimed at troops are training in military occupational specialties. Including about 30 thousand – in DOSAAF Russia, as well as more than 4 thousand people having specialty, military-related accounts.

In the alternative civilian service is directed 324 people. Total alternative service citizens in 1118.

The total number of citizens, who avoided military service – 3.5 thousand people.

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