Putin signs law to create digital draft system, closes borders for those who failed to appear at military commissariats

Russian Meduza media reported about it.

The law provides for the creation of a digital military register, which will be maintained by military commissariats. It will store personal data of persons liable for military service, including place of residence and place of stay, place of work, health information and other data.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Tax Service, courts, medical organisations, educational institutions and other agencies and organisations will be obliged to submit information to the register.

Military registration and enlistment offices will be able to send summonses by registered mail to the place of residence or electronically to a personal account on the State Services website.

The summons will be considered received immediately after it is posted in the personal account.

Once the call-up is deemed to have been served, the person liable for military service is prohibited from leaving the country until he or she reports to the military registration and enlistment office. The evader may also be deprived of the right to drive a car, register real estate and take loans.

In the past, when the call-up papers were sent in letters, many Russians avoided the draft by staying away from their address of record.

On April 11, the Russian State Duma passed the bill on electronic summonses in the second and third readings. The next day, it was approved by the country's Federation Council.