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Oleg Kozlovsky, founder of the opposition Movement "Oborona" (Rus. defense), was a few days ago against his will of the police to Voenkomat (ähn. Kreiswehrersatzamt brought) trained and forced into the army. These involuntary confinement is illegal because Oleg already completed at the university, like other students, military training (voenaja Kafedra).
To protest against the illegal instruction has Kozlovsky immediately declared a hunger strike. was then he moved in that night from its original location in the Moscow region to Ryazan. This confirmed his mother in an interview to radio station "Echo Moskvy".
"Oborona" is an association of young adults, mostly students, who see their freedoms under the current regime is limited and for their preservation or regaining . Stand Oleg Kozlovsky has here described the motives of the movement founded by him in English. "Oborona" is part of the Alliance "Other Russia".
An introduction to the military service is an intellectual in Moscow, especially if the service is far from the capital to be completed, a process that brings people into a life-threatening situation. In the country the envy Moscow in principle, because the standard of living in Moscow exceeds the Russian average by a multiple. But even without this, Russia is the military service in a deadly affair. To die this year as more Americans soldiers in Iraq war! Torture, insult, Beatings of the worst kind are daily life in the Russian army (I am currently looking for a statistic).
Here are some things which has made it into the public: There are cases of conscripts, which are first beaten up, it suffered broken bones in the legs and abdomen area, and then left without food and medical aid on a spot in the barracks in order to end there after 3 days of horrible. In another case, the beat was thrown to the dogs, and of these almost completely eaten. This is something we know only in horror films. But these are only the most terrible fate. There are hundreds who hang themselves, jump out the window or otherwise anticipate the tormentors.
This training is a real aggravation of the situation of dissidents in Russia. Zwangseinwesungen, well known from the Sowietzeiten were in the Putin period so far only against radical groups like the Nationalbolschewiken applied. This fight even with Kasparov in the alliance "United Russia", but violent and very radical. "Oborona" however, is a liberal democratic union, emerged from youth "Yabloko" wing.
Update: Oleg was convicted last week by the medical commission of the army for only conditionally suitable for military, that he was drafted only in case of war. Once that exporting from a position of the army confirmed, it should come free. He seems
have been lucky.
Nevertheless, the Association of Soldiers' Mothers says illegal over 3000 draftees in the period from October to Dec 2007. There
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