ST.PETERSBURG. July 1 (Interfax-AVN) - About 100 potential draftees have applied for alternative civil service in northwestern European Russia, Colonel Boris Bizyarin, chief of the draft and pre-draft training department in the mobilization service of the Leningrad military district headquarters, said on Thursday.
"Twenty-four people have been sent for alternative civil service during the spring draft. They made applications for this type of service much beforehand and had received court rulings to this effect," Bizyarin told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"About 100 people is very little as compared to the total number of citizens that are drafted for military service. In addition, another 70 people have applied for alternative civil service during the spring draft. They will realize this right in the fall," he said.
According to Bizyarin, northwestern Russia "is ready to accommodate alternative servicemen from other regions, because, as local authorities say, required jobs have been created here."
The spring draft plan has been implemented in full in northwestern Russia, Bizyarin went on.
"The last draftee teams were sent to military units from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region yet on June 29. There were no incidents," he said.
The officer praised military commissioner's offices of the Vologda and Leningrad region.
"The draftees who went through the military commissioner's office of the Pskov region were equipped with military uniform by 100 percent. The uniform provision experiment held there will be spread to all Russian regions in the fall," he said.