Putin signed a law on preventive counseling sessions for draft dodgers in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law aimed at tightening measures against individuals who evade military service. The document provides for so-called “preventive interviews” with citizens who fail to report to military registration and enlistment offices or evade conscription. The law also specifically mentions combating the “distortion of historical truth.”
The document was published on the portal for regulatory legal acts.
Amendments were made to the federal law “On the Fundamentals of the System for the Prevention of Offenses in the Russian Federation.” Provisions were added regarding “the fulfillment of military duty and the performance of military service” and “ensuring the protection of historical truth and preventing the downplaying of the significance of the people’s heroic deeds in defending the fatherland.”
According to the explanatory note, ensuring security and organizing the state’s defense is one of the most important areas of state policy “in the context of ongoing geopolitical tensions.” In the opinion of the bill’s authors, this cannot be achieved “without every citizen realizing the necessity of unconditionally fulfilling the duty to defend the homeland.”
The document states that the need to prevent the distortion of historical truth is explained by the increased activity of so-called terrorist and extremist organizations, “radical-minded citizens, and foreign agents who manipulate public consciousness” by means of “distorting information about events and facts,” as well as confrontation with “unfriendly countries.” All of this, it is claimed, could create conditions for the formation among Russians of “misconceptions and knowledge of Russian history and specific events that do not correspond to reality,” which, in turn, contributes to the commission of offenses by citizens themselves.
Putin fired Shoigu’s deputy, who was in charge of electronic draft notices.
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Prior to this, on May 19, the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied a Financial Times report that Xi Jinping had allegedly spoken negatively about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions during talks with Donald Trump.
Earlier, Trumppointed out the catastrophic consequences of a mistake in choosing a successor — Fortune.
On May 18, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image in which he is allegedly depicted alongside an “alien” and accompanied by “space forces.”
