MOSCOW, May 17 (AVN) - The Moscow military commissar's office does not have any information concerning the alleged decision that citizens enrolled into the military will be serving in the territories of those federal districts where they reside, Major-General Mikhail Sorokin, the city military commissar said on Wednesday.
The general commented on the information published by several media agencies saying that the presidential administration is preparing a bill that will envisage the performance of regular military service by citizens only in those federal districts where they were recruited.
The recently published presidential decree on the establishment of federal districts does not say anything about it, the general stressed.
The recruits are still to be sent to any region inside Russia. As to the 70 percent of Moscow residents that stay to serve in the Moscow military district, Sorokin explained this with an "adopted tradition and the peculiarities of the region itself."
The chief mobilisation and organisation department of the General Staff also did not have any information concerning the alleged decision, the Military News Agency learned from the department administration.
The introduction of a territorial principle of drafting at the present moment would be inappropriate and practically impossible to implement, a department official said.
According to him, this information was launched in the media by a certain public organisation (known to the Defence Ministry) that wants this idea to settle in the minds of society.