Members of the Military Medical Examination Commission can no longer use their own discretion when determining a person's eligibility for the military, the Defense Ministry said on May 4. President ...

Croatia has begun the military training process by sending medical examination calls to young men born in 2007, with training ...

Ukraine’s parliament passed a law Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to water down the ...

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 ...

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 military has two conscription cycles that take place twice a year, one in the spring and another in the fall. On the last days of September, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the ...

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament passed a law Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to ...