Source: HRO.org (info), 24/02/12 

· Articles by human rights defenders  · Army  · Conscripts’ rights 

On 22 February 2012, an independent NGO report ‘The Redundant Soldier. Forced Labour in the Russian Army’ (in Russian - for a summary in English see here) was presented to journalists and experts in Moscow. The report by Lyudmila Vakhnina of Memorial, Moscow, and a member of the Expert Council of the Russian Ombudsman, has been published by the Centre for the Development of Democracy & Human Rights. 

The report is based on monitoring and other human rights work by an association of more than 20 civil society organizations in a number of Russian regions, ‘The Redundant Soldier’. [Read more]