Under this law, anyone who doesn’t show up at an enlistment office within 7 days of the notice will have their passport and driver’s license canceled automatically.
This includes all Russians currently living and working abroad.
“This includes all Russians currently living and working abroad.”
I think the chances of someone living and/or working abroad going back to Russia to sign up for the draft is somewhere near zero.
Russia already had a very bad demographic with very few people having children. The reason for not having children was they didn’t feel they could afford them. The war has increased the demographic disaster by two methods. One, men of child producing age are dying. Two, people who had any marketable skills decided they didn’t want to go die so some old man could reproduce an empire in a world where there aren’t any empires left.
In 1925 my grandfather left his family in Sweden because he realized there was nothing in Sweden for them but poverty. He got a good paying job at a steel mill in Pennsylvania through a relative who had left earlier. He sent a letter and money to my grandmother to bring the two children. She had to get their papers from the church. The priest told her she couldn’t have them. The whole village was moving to America, and he wouldn’t let her go. She picked up a candlestick holder and threatened to beat him to death. He produced the documents, and she went to America. (Her husband was already gone. You have to wonder what was going on in his head. Perhaps he thought he could handle a lone woman.)