Recruitment offices hunt conscripts without regard for the law

December 14 early in the morning in the dormitory building of the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, people in police uniform staged a raid. Students were picked up from their beds, then around 50, under protection, young people were sent to the draft board.

In the worst traditions of modern times, those who must ensure the rule of law themselves are doing lawlessness - full-time students are suspended from service.

In the military enlistment office of young people, the military commission promptly checked for suitability. From the students who stated that they had a delay or were declared unfit for health reasons, the commission demanded to submit supporting documents, then, since the young men raised from their beds could not produce anything, they handed the summons.

Five students are prescribed to appear in the military enlistment office in the coming days for military service. About forty students were kept inside the military registration and enlistment office — they were forced to sign agendas issued for the coming days.

During the day, in connection with the detention of students, Larisa Slutskaya, vice-rector for the Moscow Conservatory’s academic department, arrived at the Mantulinskaya 24, but she and the lawyer, who came with her to find out the reasons for the students ’detention, were not allowed into the military unit.

In a conversation with the head of the department of the military registration and enlistment office Slutskaya, it was stated that the agenda had been sent to the students, but they did not appear in the military registration and enlistment office. “None of our students deliberately shirk their military service, but in order to get a decent professional education and benefit the society, they all have to complete their studies in a music college,” noted Slutskaya.

The fact that military service, which does not give the possibility of regular classes on the instrument, is detrimental to young performers, is known to all. A number of famous musicians, including pianists Evgeny Kissin, Alexey Sultanov, had similar problems, were forced to leave Russia and often could not enter their homeland after the expiration of the draft age. This is a shameful fact in the eyes of the cultural community, however, everything repeats.