Loophole Lets Military Draft Students

The Defense Ministry has dealt academia a new blow by starting to enlist full-time postgraduate students who were previously exempt from mandatory military service, Gazeta.ru reported Thursday. The odd situation was enabled by recent changes to educational legislation that now require colleges to get accredited to teach postgraduates but do not spell out procedures for obtaining the accreditation, the report said. The bureaucratic confusion, which Gazeta.ru said was the fault […]