MOSCOW. April 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Some 5,000 young men will be recruited for active-duty service from Moscow during the spring draft, Moscow Military Commissioner Major General Vasily Krasnogorsky told a news conference on Wednesday.
"Some 5,000 young Muscovites will be sent to the Armed Forces during the spring draft lasting from April 1 to June 30. A total of 55,000-60,000 teenagers will be summoned to draft boards, but only 10 percent of them will join the army," Krasnogorsky said.
He noted that 125 draft boards have started working in Moscow. "Thirty draft points will be deployed to the city for conducting the draft," Krasnogorsky said.
He stressed that this draft is peculiar for having heads of local self-governing bodies as chairmen of draft boards and deputy heads of district administrations as deputy chairmen. This will be done in line with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's order dated March 4, 2003.
Speaking about so-called "hunts" for eligible young men, Krasnogorsky said that they have never happened and will never happen in Moscow. "Interior bodies will work together with officials of district military commissioner's offices in the sphere of drafting people for active-duty service in accordance with Russian legislation," he stressed.