It is a wrong reading of the bill. (In Russia very many media described it incorrectly.) Really, the author of the bill has tried to decrease the number of people who can be treated as “compatriot”. The current revision of the Russian law about compatriots doesn’t expect that compatriots are oblige to know Russian. And one of the MPs decided to “fix” it.
With so many tech experts leaving, Russia is hoping it can help convince them to stay by exempting them from the draft. It is an interesting dilemma. If you admit you’re an expert, you can’t be drafted, but also you can’t leave.
There are no real laws about it. But it seems a draft exemption rights will be linked with companies. If you are working for a company which is listed somewhere as “IT company”, you cannot be drafted. It seems your position in a company doesn’t matter.
But the current draft will be conducted under old laws. (In Russia there are two drafts in a year: from April to June and from October to December).
I was wrong about IT specialists and drafts. Already there is government decree about it. For a draft exemption you must:
have bachelor or master degree in speciality from very long government’s list;
work for an accredited company for 11 months or more if you graduated more than a year ago. If you have less than a year after graduation, you should work for an accredited company and the working period doesn’t matter.
It is a wrong reading of the bill. (In Russia very many media described it incorrectly.) Really, the author of the bill has tried to decrease the number of people who can be treated as “compatriot”. The current revision of the Russian law about compatriots doesn’t expect that compatriots are oblige to know Russian. And one of the MPs decided to “fix” it.
There are no real laws about it. But it seems a draft exemption rights will be linked with companies. If you are working for a company which is listed somewhere as “IT company”, you cannot be drafted. It seems your position in a company doesn’t matter.
But the current draft will be conducted under old laws. (In Russia there are two drafts in a year: from April to June and from October to December).
I was wrong about IT specialists and drafts. Already there is government decree about it.
For a draft exemption you must:
have bachelor or master degree in speciality from very long government’s list;
work for an accredited company for 11 months or more if you graduated more than a year ago. If you have less than a year after graduation, you should work for an accredited company and the working period doesn’t matter.
And these rules apply to the current draft.