Major reform efforts began in the mid-2000s to replace a system which still resembled the Soviet Union's. But to outside eyes, the system for recruits seems eerily similar. The fitness standards ...

We have papers proving that every citizen of the Soviet Republic who is not a military conscript is an industrial conscript. . . . “The Russian Government is always preaching war and ...

She wrote to the Russian president demanding an explanation as to why an 18-year-old conscript was involved in combat. Throughout the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin promised that conscripts wouldn't ...

Events in East Germany last week went far to illustrate Adenauer’s point: > Determined to raise a conscript army in ... when they were released from Soviet P.W. camps—never to bear arms ...

A Soviet-style military is "a more comfortable ... such as shifting away from mass conscript armies to a professional volunteer force. The problem is that these reforms have tended to be stymied ...

The college dropout and former Red Army conscript started out trading rubber ... It was the late 1980s, and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was seeking to transfer power from the dusty state ...