the State Duma adopted in the first reading the law on compensation for conscripts. The document suggests that all new recruits will receive 2 thousand rubles per month, plus bonuses for participation in dangerous operation, reports TASS.
Deputy defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova said that the conscripts receive a salary in 2012, when the troops began the experiment. Now it ends and they want to consolidate the allowance for soldiers by law, to increase the prestige of the service.
For soldiers in the army of Russia, the draft law should enter into force on 1 January 2019, and for employees of other law enforcement agencies from January 1, 2020. The Deputy Minister noted that the new document would not require additional revenue from the budget.
meanwhile, the LDPR faction proposed to bring the salary of the soldiers of the minimum in the country – 12130 rubles. All the money from to pay it is not necessary, according to the representative the liberal-Democrats Alexander Sherin. Most of the money can be left until the end of the service. Then the young man will get a kind of “lifting”.