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Conscription in Russia (Russian: всеобщая воинская обязанность, romanized: vseobshchaya voinskaya obyazannost, translated as "universal military obligation" or "liability for military service") is a 12-month draft, which is mandatory for all male citizens who are between 18 and 30 years old, with a number of exceptions. [1]
United Kingdom – 18 (voluntary; age 16 with parental consent; age 17 for admission to an officer program; Nepalese citizens can join the Brigade of Gurkhas at age 17) United States – 18 (voluntary registration), 18 (voluntary service; age 17 with parental consent), 17 (compulsory militia service under 10 U.S. Code § 246) [3]
The following list projects the total number of people around the globe that are eligible for military service.The estimates are drawn from demographic projections in the CIA World Factbook as of 2009.
The decree, published in Russian state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, calls to carry out the draft of citizens "aged 18 to 30 years, who are not in the reserve and are subject to conscription ...
"The priority should be providing missiles and lowering Russia's military potential, not Ukraine's draft age," continued the post. "The goal should be to preserve as many lives as possible, not to ...
However, between late autumn 1982 and 1988 the Soviet Union had a mandatory draft for students of most universities, [10] [11] with the peak conscription fraction in 1987. Students were drafted for two or, if for the navy, three years, of military service, typically after termination of the first or second academic year.
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After the Russian defeat in the Crimean War during the reign of Alexander II, the Minister of War Dmitry Milyutin introduced sweeping proposals for military reform, with draft provisions presented in 1862. As part of these reforms, in 1856, a conscription statute was approved by the tsar making military service theoretically compulsory for all ...