MOSCOW - The way in which Anti-Corruption Foundation employee Ruslan Shaveddinov was called up to the Russian Armed Forces does not reflect poorly on the latter, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said at a press conference on Wednesday.
While Peskov was talking to journalists, some of them described Shaveddinov's recent call-up to the Armed Forces as "a special operation" and asked him whether the Kremlin is concerned that this could affect the image of draft-based military service in Russia.
"We have seen media reports on this account, but it's hard for me to comment on this, as I don't know whether he dodged the draft, and if he did, for how long he did it. If he did dodge the draft, then he has violated Russian law, and so I don't think this reflects poorly on anything. If this person didn't dodge military service, then what's happened is very bad. If he dodged and was called up in this way, then everything was done strictly in line with the law," he said.