On April 5, the State Duma Council decided to return for second reading a draft law on informing citizens about activities related to conscription for military service. On this subject to write Vedomosti, citing sources from the lower house of parliament and the press service of the State Duma.
The bill was introduced by a group of deputies from United Russia on January 12, 2018. It follows that summonses to the military registration and enlistment office can be sent by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt to the home or resort. The authors of the bill proposed to consider these summonses received on the day of their issuance. Thus, in addition to the previous method of service of a summons against signature, the sending of summons by registered mail has been added.
The bill passed its first reading on April 3, 2018. Amendments were added to the second reading of the bill, according to which a conscript who received a summons after the date indicated in it is required to present at the Military Registration and Enlistment Office within two weeks. If the conscript did not receive a summons from the Military Registration and Enlistment Office during the conscription period, on the next conscription he was obliged to report himself within two weeks “to check the records military”. In the event of non-appearance, the draftee should be considered as evading military duty, according to the bill.
In the second reading, the bill was considered on February 22, 2022 – two days before the start of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. In third reading, the bill was supposed to be considered on March 16, 2022, but the reading was postponed and the initiative was not discussed for a long time. According to Vedomosti, now for the implementation of the bill it is necessary to support it in the third reading, after which it will be submitted to the Federation Council for consideration.
However, Andrey Kartapolov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, on April 6 proposed to the State Duma Council that the bill be returned to the second reading stage. This means that it will be possible to propose amendments to the bill. Kartapolov did not specify in a conversation with the newspaper what exactly the proposal to return to the second reading was related to.
Journalist Farida Rustamova believes that the bill be returned to second reading to include the ability to serve electronic subpoenas through state departments and legalize them. On the fact that calls will be sent digitally during the spring draft campaign, March 31 declared Representative of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Tsimlyansky. Yuri Shvytkin, a member of the Defense Committee, also said that delivering an electronic summons through “state services” will be equated with delivering a notice in person. On the same day, Gosuslugi disabled the account deletion feature.
Afterwards, Andrei Kartapolov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, said that “there is no subpoena through state services in the law. Andrey Klishas, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, also noted that there is no rule of law that would allow quotes to be equated. to appear electronically to those delivered in person.
The lawyer, partner of the military ombudsman project, Maxim Grebenyuk, explained to The Eastern Herald that the electronic method of serving subpoenas is not against the law. However, no liability is now foreseen for non-appearance on a digital diary received, for example, via Gosuslugi, he noted.
