In 2024, the spring conscription for military service traditionally begins on April 1. This will be the first campaign to take place taking into account the new law raising the draft age. Read more about what other changes will come into force this spring and who is entitled to a deferment in Izvestia’s material.
Spring conscription 2024: when it begins and ends
Conscription campaigns for military service are carried out twice a year: from April 1 to July 15 (spring conscription) and from October 1 to December 31 (autumn conscription). However, there are categories of citizens who are subject to different conscription periods. Thus, representatives of the small peoples of the Far North and equivalent areas are sent to serve from May 1 to July 15 and from November 1 to December 31. At the same time, workers in the pedagogical spheres are called up only in late spring, from May 1, and residents of rural areas engaged in sowing and harvesting work – only in the fall, from October 15.
Every year, the President of Russia signs a decree on the conscription of citizens for service. The document also notes the number of people who are planned to be drafted during the spring campaign. According to statistics from recent years, in the spring slightly more citizens were usually called up for military service than in the fall: 134.5 thousand in 2022 and 147 thousand in 2023 versus 120 thousand in the fall of 2022 and 130 thousand in the fall of 2023 .
As part of military training, a conscript soldier masters a specialty in the first half of his service, and undergoes practical training in the second. If a conscript has distinguished himself by exemplary behavior and has not violated the Charter, he has the right to leave once a week. Dismissals can only be given after taking the oath. The employee also has the right to vacation, 10 days plus travel time. After completing their military service, military personnel are demobilized and sent to the reserve, from where they can be called up for reserve exercises or to defend the country in the event of appropriate circumstances.
Who is recruited into the army for military service during spring conscription?
The spring conscription of 2024 will take place according to new rules. Now, according to the legislative framework in Russia, men between the ages of 18 and 30 must do military service. The changes will not affect citizens who turned 27 years old before January 1, 2024, and people who have deferments or exemptions from military service category B (“limited fit”).
Initially, it was planned to shift both age limits and conscript citizens into the army not from 18 to 27 years old, but from 21 to 30 years old. State Duma deputies motivated their proposal by the fact that it is important to attract mature people who have education and life experience into the army. Nevertheless, in the end it was decided to raise only the upper limit of the draft age.
Spring conscription – 2024: how long to serve, fine for failure to appear
Attracting men to serve in the army is called a conscription campaign. The terms of military service in 2024 remain the same. Young people who will be drafted into the army in the spring will serve, as before, 12 months (one year).
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