From 2024, anyone aged 18 to 30 will be called up for a year of military service, with those served draft notices banned from leaving the country.
From 2024, anyone aged 18 to 30 will be called up for a year of military service, with those served draft notices banned from leaving the country.
The draft notice that eliminates a Russian citizen from accessing banking, travel, healthcare, and many other social services seems to me creates another problem I haven’t heard yet.
If you’re essentially cut off from legal society for consumption of goods and services needed to live, and you’re resigning yourself to that fate to save your live (avoid the draft), then the only other outlet to get those things needed for life would be crime, right?
Further, I have to imagine otherwise law-abiding Russian citizens likely don’t have the skills to become an effective petty criminal overnight, which would mean the alternative would be throwing your lot in with organized crime, of which Russia has plenty of.
Does this mean that the ranks of the mob are swelling with not only fresh people, but also lots of high quality skills that the mob may not normally be able to access because those skill provide a good livelihood?
What symptoms/measurements in the news would we start to see to support that this could be occurring now or in the future?