MOSCOW, 9 APR — RIA Novosti. high school Graduates will not go to the army this spring and will have the opportunity to pass the exam and enter universities, said the chief of the General staff of the Armed forces Valery Gerasimov.
“by the events of appeal are caused by more than 650 thousand people. Students who will pass the exam, but there there are we have about 15 thousand 650 thousand people, to be exempted from military service in the spring of this year will not be”, — he said.
the Spring conscription into the Russian army runs from 1 April to 15 July. Sending in troops will begin after may 20. According to Gerasimov, the final year students of colleges and universities will call in the military after graduation exams.
the General had to test it on COVID-19 among recruits and provide them with medical masks to prevent infection with coronavirus among recruits.
the dismissal of military personnel will be held separately with a set of recruits and between them, they should not overlap: all newcomers will be placed on a two-week quarantine, nutrition and training can be arranged separately from the rest of the personnel of military units.
Russia has experienced 10 131 patient COVID-19, 698 of them recovered and 76 died. In Moscow and many other Russian regions there is a regime of universal isolation. The authorities urge citizens not to leave their homes unless absolutely necessary and keep your distance at least a meter from each other.
