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On the way to Georgia, sometimes kilometers of traffic jams form
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Fleeing mobilization, Russians have sometimes left their cars at crowded border crossings.
MP Oleg Morozov told the state news agency Ria Novosti that these vehicles should now be confiscated.
"We urgently need to change the law so that decisions on the transfer of vehicles into state ownership can be made," Morosow said.
A confiscation could come into question, for example, if a car had not been picked up after a month, said the politician of the Kremlin party United Russia.
Miles of traffic jams at the borders of neighboring countries
Head of state Vladimir Putin ordered partial mobilization on September 21 and wants to draw in 300,000 reservists to hold the occupied areas after the Russian army was defeated in Ukraine.
After the decree, there were images of kilometer-long traffic jams at the borders with Georgia in the South Caucasus, Kazakhstan in Central Asia and Finland.
Many people ended up crossing the border on foot in order to get out of the country as quickly as possible.
Kazakhstan alone recently reported 200,000 arrivals from Russia within two weeks.
Hundreds of thousands of men have already fled their country.
In Germany, too, there was an increase in Russian applications.
In the past few months, the German embassy in the Georgian capital Tbilisi has registered ten to 20 applications from Russian nationals per month.
According to a report, more than 300 inquiries from Russians who wanted to travel to Germany had been received from the day of mobilization until the middle of this week.
The announcement of the mobilization not only led to people fleeing, but also to violent nationwide protests.
In many places, women in particular are protective of their husbands, brothers and sons.
According to civil rights activists, more than 2,000 people have been arrested during protests since mobilization began.
Putin feels compelled to partially backtrack in the face of panic among young men.
Most recently, other groups were temporarily exempted from military service.
According to a decree published by the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday, the convocation of students at state-licensed private universities will be suspended.
Accordingly, certain postgraduates and people who want to become priests or take up other religious professions also get a postponement.
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