A court in Solnechnogorsk in the Moscow region has fined a Russian draftee 20,000 roubles after convicting him of evading military service.
The defendant ignored two separate military summonses, including an electronic notice delivered directly to his personal account on Russia's Gosuslugi state services portal.
According to the joint press service of the courts of the Moscow Region, which reported the ruling to news outlet Lenta.ru, the man received his first summons in person. Officials handed him the document under his own signature while he was inside a military commissariat. However, he failed to report to the enlistment office on the appointed date.
A second summons was subsequently sent to his personal account on the Gosuslugi portal. Court evidence demonstrated that the electronic notice was received and opened on the same day it was issued, but the draftee once again ignored the order to report.
Electronic draft summonses
Gosuslugi is Russia's unified public services portal, an online platform managed by the state to provide citizens with access to administrative paperwork, tax records, and official communications. Russia updated its military registration framework to allow military commissariats to serve summonses electronically through the portal, establishing that digital notifications carry full legal force upon delivery.
Solnechnogorsk is an administrative town located in the Moscow region, northwest of the capital. Local military commissariats handle draft administration, citizen registration, and compulsory military service recruitment across Russian municipalities.
The joint press service of the courts of the Moscow Region oversees judicial announcements and official press releases for district courts across the province.
Sakhalin draft evasion case
The conviction in the Moscow region comes alongside other law enforcement actions targeting draft evasion across Russia. In Sakhalin, investigators opened criminal cases against a 59-year-old local resident who used social media networks to urge citizens to evade military service and desert.
Sakhalin is a large island in the Russian Far East, located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. Under Russian penal law, inciting draft evasion or desertion is a criminal offense, and state investigative bodies monitor online platforms for public calls against military service.
Lenta.ru is a major online news publication based in Moscow that reports on national security, legal affairs, and domestic policy across the Russian Federation.
