In connection with the first meeting of the State Duma RF fall session that opened with the government hour "About the real situation in the Military Forces of the Russian Federation", coalition "For democratic alternative civil service!" convoked the press conference "Army - under civil control". more on Russian: http://www.owl.ru/content/civilevents/p51431.shtml
Every year about 400 thousand young men are called up (in the recent years a little bit less). The number of 18-year-old men makes up from 1 million up to 1 million 200 thousand people. Try to divide this number by the number of 18-year-old men. What result did you get? And what do the newspapers write? You are right - they write that only 11-12% of young men are called up.
He was in correspondence with all them ion behalf of 42 real young women living in Chelyabinsk - and 42 potential fiancees were so inspired that they sent to a beautiful but poor girl more than 300 000 US$.
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