In Moscow, they announced the opening of a recruitment point in the migration center and promised to grant Russian citizenship after a year of service.
/strong>, which is fighting against Ukraine, in Russia decided to open a recruitment point in the Moscow migration center, and the State Duma passed a law on granting foreign mercenaries Russian citizenship after a year of service. However, the authorities of at least three CSTO countries have warned their citizens against this.
Ukrainian intelligence reported in August that due to the lack of people willing to fight, the occupiers are trying to recruit citizens of Central Asian countries into the army. Employees of military commissariats and police departments were then instructed to “conduct campaigning activities” with citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
On September 20, the mayor of Moscow Serhiy Sobyanin announced on his website that a representative office of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation would be opened in the migration center of the capital. On the same day, the State Duma simplified the procedure for acquiring citizenship for foreigners who signed a contract to serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. If earlier they could get a Russian passport after three years of service, now a year is enough.
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However, the very next day, September 21, the governments of these countries warned their citizens of criminal liability for participating in hostilities as part of the Russian army.
“The Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Russian Federation warns the citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic, who are temporarily in the territory of the Russian Federation, against participating in armed conflicts or military actions on the territory of foreign countries, for which criminal liability is established, – reported on the website of the Kyrgyzstan embassy. – The participation of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic in hostilities on the territory of foreign countries is punishable by imprisonment for a term of up to 10 years with confiscation of property.”in the Russian Federation “The commission of this act is punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years,” the message states. ASIA-Plus, which refers to Art. 154 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan. In these articles, it is stated that hiring is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years.
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It should be noted that the Russian aggression against Ukraine forced the countries of the region to look at the Russian Federation through the prism of their own threats. They are becoming aware of their vulnerability to Russia, taking into account undisguised territorial claims, economic dependence, risks of destabilization of the situation on the part of Moscow in the event of a weakening of its influence, and, finally, issues of its own security, which it is unlikely to be able to provide. All this has significantly shaken Russia's position among CSTO members Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Read more about this in Natalia Baturynska's article “Putin is in a weak position: why are presidents late for meetings with him“.
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