The law On alternative civil service will be voted down by the State Duma today at 17.00 (Moscow time). We failed in the fight with Defence Ministry and military lobby.I shall be glad if I am mistaken, but I have new information that the main speaker on that draft bill refused to make a report, as several others deputies of the Parliament after meeting with the Chief of the Department of the General Staff of the Defence Ministry Mr V.V.Smirnov.

member of the working

group on the law On

alternative civil

service, member of the

General Council of RP

- Maria Ivanian