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Guest workers from Central Asian countries are often rounded up on the street, taken to recruitment offices and pressured into signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.
After that, reports started pouring in about defense officials pressuring migrants to join the armed forces, activist and lawyer Valentina Chupik told DW.
“My colleagues and I found a video recorded by somebody from Tajikistan, who was behind a wheel of a truck in Ukraine and was saying he didn’t know what was happening — he joined the Russian army and now he doesn’t know if he will survive,” the Uzbekistan-born lawyer said.
“This practice has now grown especially common,” said Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Civic Assistance Committee and member of the Memorial Human Rights Center.
In mid-August 2023, Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights suggested changing the law to make military registration mandatory for those applying for a Russian passport.
By the end of the month, Communist lawmaker Mikhail Matveev introduced a bill that would allow for a loss of citizenship for draft dodgers and those seeking to evade registration and mandatory military training.
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