An Explanatory Note to a Draft Bill on Alternative Military Service Cover Image

Пояснительная записка к проекту федерального закона РФ "О гражданской службе, альтернативной военной службе в РФ"
An Explanatory Note to a Draft Bill on Alternative Military Service

Author(s): Sergei Torsunov, Andrei Popov , Vyacheslav Kasho
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Издательство »Права человека«
Keywords: Conscription; military service; alternative military service; constitution; draft bill; citizen

Summary/Abstract: Compulsory military service in Russia should be perceived as citizen's committment to the society and not the state. In this connection alternative military service is not degrading -- this is an opinion of three Krasnoyarsk lawyers, authors of a draft bill on alternative military service. In this commentary they give a close analysis of their draft and the situation in general.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 72-78
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian