MOSCOW. Jan 14 (Interfax-AVN) - Each Russian citizen who has underwent obligatory military service and been transferred to the reserve can be recruited for a military training session for the period of up to two months in 2002, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
The term is fixed by a decree of President Vladimir Putin signed last week, as well by federal laws dealing with recruitment of reservists, the spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency.
A citizen can be recruited from the reserve for a 10-day training session or an inspection session intended to check whether the terms of mobilization assigned to military units and military commissioner's offices are real. A 25-day training session can be held for servicing armament and assets in extended storage, as well as for mastering of their control by reservists. Citizens liable for military service can be recruited for eight- hour training classes from time to time, too.
A citizen cannot be recruited for training sessions more than once in three years, and the total term of his involvement in training sessions cannot exceed 12 months during his entire membership in the reserve.
The need to recruit reservists for military training sessions is motivated by the unavailability of any other way of training military specialists in peacetime and by the need to train people registered with the military commissioner's offices but who have not undergone military service and have no military profession.