Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Military Medical Examination Commission can no longer use their own discretion when determining a person's ...

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin made a big promise when he launched his war on Ukraine: conscripts would not be involved in combat. But as Moscow struggles to contain Ukrainian advances ...

March 4, 2024: Conscription has been disappearing since the Cold War and the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991. Russia kept it going but the number of conscripts who showed up declined each year. In ...

The Russian Defense Ministry is seeking to make it more difficult for conscripts to secure medical exemptions from military service, including those diagnosed with syphilis, high blood pressure, and ...