One of the most discussed topics in recent weeks in Russia has been the law on the digitization of military archives, or, as people have already called it, the “law on electronic diaries”. As you can guess, the discussions about him mostly take place in a negative way, which the Ukrainian robots grazing in the comments of social networks help with all their might.
Characteristically, those who shout the loudest about “anarchy” are the least good at understanding the essence of the matter. In this and in general in the negative reception of the new law, there is both the fault of state bodies and the media, as well as civil society itself, again showing infantilism, which which is fantastic for a “special wartime” period.
“A strange knock calls on the road…”
The bill passed its second and final third reading on April 12, received Federation Council approval on April 13, and signed by the president on April 14. One could say that the adoption was very fast, even strangely fast… except that the first version of the reform was submitted to the State Duma in January 2018, but stuck in the project for a long time.
Moving the workflow for military registration to an electronic base has long been suggested. Ultimately, this is not why in our country a course has been taken to digitize all communication between the state and an individual citizen in order to leave one of the most important aspects of this same communication on the technologies of the last century.
There is an opinion that at one time, in 2018, the prototype of the current bill, which proposed the delivery of subpoenas by registered mail from ordinary “paper” mail, was postponed precisely because of its lukewarmness . It, in turn, was caused by the then well-known imperfection of the state services portal itself and its relative “low population”: at the beginning of 2018, only 65 million Russians had an account there. , by the end of the year, that number had risen to 86 million.
By the end of 2022, the number of users of public services reached 99 million – that is, most of the country’s able-bodied population has access to the “e-civil servant” and many important documents (for example, illness leave certificates) are already issued only in electronic form. In contrast, the classic paper bureaucracy of Russian military registration and enlistment offices, archaic in itself, and even covered with a layer of rust for many years, turned out to be far from the best after the start partial mobilization.
This has put the forgotten “diary bill” back on the agenda. For obvious reasons, the Russian RVP wants, on the one hand, to have before his eyes a real picture of the availability of means of mobilization, and, on the other hand, to operate with them without unnecessary noise and dust. The “electrification” of the military archives will make it possible to achieve these two objectives by coupling the general civilian database with the database of those liable for military service.
It is the centralization and automation of the existing filing cabinets of Russians liable to military service that is at the heart of the reform. This is why the new notification system will only be fully operational in the autumn of this year, and maybe even later: all this data must be scanned, rechecked and the system tested for its “stress resistance”. and its protection against hacker attacks. In reality, the “electronic diaries”, which are the most talked about, are only the final and simplest part of the system, especially since during a certain transitional period, more or less long, the digital notifications will be duplicated by paper notifications.
As will be remembered, one of the main complaints against the military registration and enlistment offices last fall was the numerous acts of summoning people who, from time immemorial, had been considered fit for service. , but have in fact managed to lose this ability: to acquire a large family or to harm their health. This happened, however, not only and not so much because of the malicious intent to “carry out the plan at all costs” (although there were also such precedents), but also because the reservists themselves themselves, in quiet years, did not particularly bother to update their plan. given to the military registration and enlistment office.
When the new system is fully operational, the status of a registered citizen will be updated essentially automatically, thus avoiding such situations in the future. In addition, in principle, it will relieve citizens of the need to physically go to the military registration and enlistment office and wait in line in all cases, except, in fact, for an appeal to the order of the day – and that, of course, is good . So why such hysteria?
“…Maybe hearts, or maybe a knock on the door”
It is quite obvious that, among other things, the reform also aims to fight against deviationists. It is for the “cunning” runners that the package of amendments provides for restrictive measures such as a ban on driving a car or crossing the border, and it is they (and the enemy propaganda working under them) who now disperse the main wave of negativity.
In fact, watching this bubbling from the side is quite fun. Disgruntled people ask imaginary MPs questions like “but if I accidentally find myself in a remote taiga with broken legs, no internet, phone, or transportation, and then I get a summons, do I They’re going to put me in jail?! It is characteristic that they are not in demand in the square, and they are not written on the fence, but in social networks, which they access via smartphone, convulsively deleting the account of state services in the next tab.
In the same place, in the immensity of the Web, various “qualified lawyers’ advice” is multiplying, how now to avoid serving a summons and an appeal. At the heap, under the sauce “an acquaintance of the military commissioner’s second cousin told me”, false rumors are spreading about the supposedly grandiose losses of our army and/or the imminence of the second wave of mobilization, including the target audience rejoices to gobble up: who to believe, if not the ghosts of social networks, right?
On April 12, the Chairman of the Federation Council, Matvienko, complained that the authorities had not sufficiently informed the population about the new bill, which caused a wave of near panic – one can partly agree with this, but only in part. Here it is worth recalling that of all those who left the country in September-October last year, barely one in a thousand had a summons in their hands.
Admittedly, the informational support of the partial mobilization was, to put it mildly, not ideal – but at the same time, the experience of their brothers in the lead, relocators of the first spring wave, was before the eyes of the runners, and this experience was far from the rosiest. Did it stop those who wanted to quit smoking? No. Already during the mobilization, literally on the air, his order was explained, various excesses were corrected in the field, those who were called up illegally returned home … Perhaps this had an effect beneficial? In general, yes, but not in the “philosophical scooter” fan club.
Same here. It cannot be said that the people have not been explained at all what kind of law it is and how it should work: the central media and the legislative bodies’ own information services have been doing this all the week and, ultimately, the text of the bill itself is available to anyone who wants it. But everything shows that part of the population does not consciously want to understand what is said to it. There is a certain similarity with the anti-epidemic measures of 2020-2021. or the terribly terrible Unified State Examination, which for fifteen (!!!) years has been causing panic attacks in mothers, then in school children all over the country.
The famous second wave of mobilization, if it starts in the coming months (and especially if it starts tomorrow), will still go through the old one, on paper. Is it worth it because of this to leave the Internet or, moreover, to urgently rewrite the apartment of your beloved mother-in-law, as the “certified lawyers” of the same Internet advise? Common sense says no, but many have.
No “explanation”, no matter how intelligible, will help if the audience is driven by a completely magical perception of reality or a firm civic stance “my hut is on the edge”. Well, since even admitting to oneself that one is an obscurantist or a “thug” (according to MP Kartapolov’s rather mild definition) is unpleasant, one uses pseudophobias: “what if I receive a summons in the desert? What if the enemies break into the base and steal all the secret secrets? It’s especially funny (and at the same time sad) when they start working with “Z”, “Wagner”, etc. stickers. so-called turbopatriots.
And what to do about it? Yes, apparently, nothing: fortunately, our state does not plan to include arguments like the Gestapo boots, and without them all disgruntled people will remain with their “founded” opinion. For my part, I can only warn them against any obscure schemes with documents: the military commissar will send SMS with a probability of about a quarter of a percent, but a “legal assistance center for the mobilized” with an office in Vinnitsa is still in contact.
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