GROZNY. May 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Chechen conscripts drafted in this year's spring draft are most likely to serve in Chechnya, military commissioner of the Chechen Republic Colonel Anatoly Khryachkov told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
Khryachkov said that a letter of the head of the Chechen administration and calculations of the military commissioner's office had already been sent to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces for the making of a decision on the issue.
The rationale behind the decision to resort to territorial service concept is complaints of commanders about inadequate conduct of conscripts from Chechnya, the colonel said. For instance, multiple violations of discipline, including abuses and violence, were registered in the sports company of the Central Sports Army Committee, with conscripts from Chechnya being the principal culprits. The detachment was subsequently disbanded in accordance with the corresponding decision of the General Staff.
Khryachkov said that some 300 people who were to be drafted in Chechnya this spring would serve in rifle companies of military commandants' offices in Chechen districts and localities. The colonel said that no conscripts that had been drafted earlier were to be returned to the republic.
As many as 512 conscripts from Chechnya are now serving in detachments of the Russian army and railway troops all over the country, the military commissioner added.