With the break-neck pace with which it tends to respond to measures coming from the Kremlin, this month Russia’s parliament rushed through a new measure intended to make it harder for draftees and mobilised reservists to dodge military service. In the process, it highlighted the country’s slide into techno-authoritarianism.
Until now, the law demanded that the state prove that it had presented the potential serviceman (or his family) with the appropriate draft papers.
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