ROSTOV-ON-DON. Oct 7 (Interfax-AVN) - The annual fall draft will go ahead in all parts of the Southern Federal District other than Chechnya, the press service of the North Caucasus Military District reported on Thursday.
"The draft boards in Chechnya will issue exemptions and postponements to citizens entitled to them," the report says.
Colonel General Vasily Smirnov, head of the General Staff Mobilization Directorate, had said earlier that the draft in Chechnya would proceed as usual and that draftees would serve chiefly in commandant offices' companies in the republic.