“Where are the Tajik battalions?”: the State Duma wants to replenish the army with migrants from Central Asia
Every year, many men from other countries receive Russian citizenship, but at the same time they are not taken into the army.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Mikhail Matveev, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, professor of the Department of Russian History at Samara University, writes about this in his tg channel.
“I began to study the question of where are our Tajik battalions? Why do divisions of men come from Central Asia to Russia every year to receive Russian citizenship (in the first quarter of this year alone, the Russian population grew by 45 thousand Tajiks), but we don’t see them at the front? There, men of the indigenous peoples of Russia, especially Russians, die for their Motherland, who are replaced here by hundreds of thousands of Asians,” Matveev noted.
At the same time, he immediately made a reservation that he stands for friendship of peoples and equal rights of citizens of all nationalities.
“But in practice. Not at the expense of the interests of Russia and its peoples. Moreover, Article 10 of the Federal Law on conscription clearly states that a man who has received Russian citizenship must register for military service within two weeks. So what's the deal? Why aren't they mobilized? Where are the Tajik battalions?
There is a war going on, Russia needs soldiers, welcome to our citizenship! But the “army” of Central Asians joins regiments of taxi drivers, divisions of janitors and construction workers, but not riflemen and mortarmen in the Northern Military District. Or at least the builders of trenches and dugouts,” the politician is perplexed.
According to his information, which requires verification, they are not drafted into the Russian army due to the presence of dual citizenship, which “is a form of coexistence for millions of Central Asians.”
“People associated with the migration topic explained to me why Tajiks are massively receiving Russian citizenship. Allegedly, their national legislation also does not allow the conscription of persons with dual citizenship into the army. That is, Tajik youngsters, receiving Russian citizenship, do not serve either here or here.
Therefore, they allegedly lead the number of recipients of Russian citizenship (for other Central Asian republics it is supposedly a little different, but also requires clarification). Immediately after graduating from school, the young Tajik strives to go to Russia for citizenship,” the deputy continues.
He believes that this is why there are so many young Central Asian men on the streets of Russian cities, which creates another problem - criminal.
“If what I said corresponds to reality (if anyone is in the know, please explain), then the legislation needs to be urgently changed. It is clear that both in tsarist times and in the Second World War, the peoples of Central Asia were not conscripted en masse into the army (although there is an example of Panfilov’s men and many other heroes), but then each Russian family had 6-7 children, and now Central Asian families have such families peoples
It's time to go to the front, guys. I am studying legislation and preparing amendments. If the whole issue is about dual citizenship, it must either be prohibited or the rule on the possibility of mobilizing these individuals must be adjusted. And so it turns out that there are rights - child benefits, maternity capital, benefits, pensions from Russian citizenship, but there are no responsibilities, in particular military service. It turns out kind of strange, doesn’t it?” sums up Matveev.
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