The video surveillance system in Moscow is being used to search for conscripts and determine their place of residence. This was stated to TASS by the military commissar of Moscow Maxim Loktev.
Also, at the direction of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, organizations in which conscripts work provide information about them to the military commissariats, Loktev emphasized. In addition, educational organizations help military registration and enlistment offices determine where the conscript is studying. With such information about a person, it will not be difficult to notify him about his appearance at the military registration and enlistment office, the military commissar noted.
The main reason for the non-appearance of Russians in the military enlistment office, according to Loktev, is that they do not live at the place of registration, then the conscripts fail to hand over the summons. Now much attention is being paid to this issue with the support of Sobyanin and the main department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the capital.
Similar measures were used by the Moscow authorities during the coronavirus pandemic and the self-isolation regime. Then mobile cameras that monitor compliance with traffic rules were used to search for violators of self-isolation, including pedestrians. The cost of the corresponding tender of the Moscow Traffic Organization Center (TsODD) was 98.2 million rubles.
Electronic subpoenas (“notifications” along with paper subpoenas) will be sent out through the State Services and via SMS already during the spring conscription, which runs from April 1 to July 15, the Moscow military commissar said. When the news had already begun to be discussed on the network, Loktev added that test mailing of digital agendas would be possible “only after the adoption of a resolution by the government of the Russian Federation.” Even before the adoption of the first draft law on electronic subpoenas, Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, assured that the amendments would not apply to the spring draft in 2023.
Electronic summonses will be sent in a harsh and repressive mode, and the authorities will demand that the law be enforced without fail, which indicates a lack of human resources to “cover the entire foothold of hostilities,” military expert Alexander Kovalenko said . Read more about the situation at the front and how many people the authorities plan to use in the war in The Insider report .