MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry...

Viktor Ozerov, head of the Defense and Security Committee at the Federation Council, announced that according to new legislation, the spring draft will end on July 1, as opposed to July 15, as last year.

What does that mean? According to the law, students are exempt from military service. Therefore, the most "dangerous" period for potential conscripts is the time when they have already graduated from school but have not yet enrolled in college. Most of the time, this period falls on the month of July, when the school graduation ceremonies are over and the university enrollment process is in full swing. Now the Defense Ministry extended the draft period until July 15, to bring in as many conscripts as possible.

According to Ozerov, in 2010 the conscripts will be able to avoid this "trap," as the two new federal laws that are being currently developed, the Law On Military Duty and the Law On Military Service, will replace the existing unified law On Military Duty and Military

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