Last September, the day after the partial mobilization decreed in Russia, Alexandre, a 27-year-old computer scientist, was with his parents in Penza, 550 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
The young man will never forget his terror when at five o'clock in the morning, hidden behind a door and holding his breath, he heard his mother answer the police who had come to take him to the war.
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She told them that her son was not there.
They did not insist and Alexandre not having received his mobilization order in person, the young man had been able to escape de facto from his military obligations.
Immediately, he had then hastily gathered his belongings and fled to Kazakhstan, where he remains.
But, from now on, for the Russians wanting to evade their duty as soldiers and not find themselves on the Ukrainian front, it will be almost mission impossible.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Russian deputies and then the senators indeed voted a law making it more difficult…
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