Posted on 04/18/2023 6:09:35 AM PDT by dennisw
The Russian military has begun using Moscow’s vast video surveillance system to find conscripts who evade compulsory service, Moscow’s chief draft officer Maxim Loktev told state-run news agency TASS on Tuesday.
Russia Says Surveillance System Helping to Find Draft Dodgers
“Moscow’s video surveillance systems are being used to determine a conscript’s residence,” said Loktev.
He added that workplaces and educational establishments will also provide information on those required to perform military service.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week signed a controversial law that seeks to tighten Russia’s military call-up system, replacing paper summons with electronic summons, creating a new digital database of those eligible for military service and blocking those sought for call-up from traveling abroad.
Loktev told TASS that one of the main problems for military enlistment officers was that they did not have up-to-date information for the addresses of men eligible for military service.
With the help of Moscow’s CCTV camera and face-recognition technology, he said, more accurate information on addresses could be collected.
Under Russia's the new law, which waspassed and signed at breakneck speed last week, the Russian authorities can now issue call-up papers online instead of being required to deliver them in person.
A digital database of all Russians eligible for military service is expected to launch this fall. However, Loktev said Monday that the online call-up papers will be “tested” during the ongoing spring draft.
Russian officials have previously said men conscripted for Russia’s mandatory year-long military service will not be sent to the front.
But experts warn that the bloody failure of a Russian spring offensive to achieve significant territorial gains and Kyiv’s imminent counter-offensive could mean the Kremlin is soon facing a manpower shortage in Ukraine.
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Your liberal “democracy” is just an illusion and your condescension toward life in Russia is just an expression of your own innate ignorance.
Gonna put me on train and send me East, Adolf?
I'd like to see you try it.
Move to Russia and get it all over with. Whatever age you are? I don’t know. You might find yourself on Vlad’s online draft and dragooning website. Then you can fight for your Mother Russia in Ukraine.
Nah, he’s only cheering because it’s Russia. When Ukraine takes measures to arrest people trying to flee the draft, he condemns them.
Talk is cheap Mr. Truck. Go move to Russia where it is more free.
We did it during WWI
American Protective League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Protective_League
Russia is reminding us that the Soviet Union never went away.
Nor the Czars.
“Russia is reminding us that the Soviet Union never went away.”
Putin idolizes Joseph Stalin. And we have any FReepers who elevate and idolize Vlad Putin, as their anti-Globohomo savior. What dupes!
During the Cold War we had communist dupes, fellow travelers, and useful idiots.
Ah, making threats, are you?
Did you serve in the military yourself?
No, he didn’t.
“No, he didn’t.”
Link please.
“”Could have used a system like that during Vietnam, so the draft dodgers would be in jail, rather than in the White House and Congress.””
It is being said that you avoided military service, would you really post that if you had refused to serve yourself?
Surely no one could be that hypocritical?
Sorry, but ANYONE who did serve would want those who DODGE THE DRAFT to be punished.
Holy Cow!
You wrote that harsh condemning post attacking men who never served, and you avoided military service yourself?
This is a whole new level of hypocrisy.
“You wrote that harsh condemning post attacking men who never served, and you avoided military service yourself?”
Link please, and you’re damn close to being reported for harassment.
I don’t need a link, you have answered in the affirmative, you never served, yet you wrote that incredible virtue-signaling post.
Post 3
“Could have used a system like that during Vietnam, so the draft dodgers would be in jail, rather than in the White House and Congress.
3 posted on 4/18/2023, 7:22:18 AM by BobL”
Admin, this guy has been stalking and harassing me on this thread, including after I asked him to stop asking me for personal information - it’s none of his business.
Please deal with him in way that ends this harassment.
There is no stalking or harassment, this has been a normal thread with normal exchanges.
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