MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Defense Ministry leadership is not satisfied with reaction of law-enforcement agencies to its reports on people who dodged the autumn draft of 2001, Lieutenant General Vasily Smirnov, deputy chief of the General Staff mobilization department, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
Russian prosecutor's offices received information on 7,016 draft dodgers in the course of the autumn draft. However the prosecutors have launched only 442 criminal cases, and only 76 draft dodgers have been sentenced.
The Defense Ministry believes that the negligence of law- enforcement agencies towards those people is among the causes of the growth in the number of draft dodgers. In autumn, this number grew 29 percent to 29,000 in comparison with the spring 2001 draft.