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Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Ivan Sukharev and Sergey Karginov made a proposal to exempt men from mobilization who have two children and their wife is currently pregnant. This is reported by RT, referring to the available copy of the letter of deputies addressed to First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov.
It is noted that to date, men who have four or more dependent children under the age of 16, as well as those with three children under the age of 16 and a wife whose gestation period is at least 22 weeks, fall under the deferral of conscription for mobilization. In addition, federal legislators and a number of other categories of citizens are exempt from conscription.
The parliamentarians propose to amend the legislation, according to which a deferral will be granted to men who have two children under the age of 16 and have a pregnant wife whose gestation period is at least 22 weeks. The legislators appealed to the government with a request to provide the official position of the Cabinet of Ministers on this issue.