Moscow, November 19, 1999 - Today the Secretary of the ARA Nikolai Khramov has sent an official request to the Prosecutor General ad interim Vladimir Ustinov asking the Office of the General Prosecutor to inspect the legality of the criminal action brought by the office of the Public Prosecutor of Obninsk (Kaluga region) against Dmitrii Neverovskii, a member of the ARA and of the Obninsk Regional Right-Defence Group, accused of "evading military and alternative civilian service" (Art. 328 of the Russian Criminal Code).

In 1995, when he was a student, Dmitrii Neverovskii left the military department (compulsory military training programme - transl.'s. note) of his institute because of the Chechen war. In 1997 he applied for the alternative civilian service at the Enlistment Commission and, later on, lodged a complaint against the decision to call him up for military service. His trial went on till 1999 when Kaluga Regional Court revoked the decision of the Obninsk City Court. In 1999 the Regional Court refused to satisfy his complaint while the Military Commissar of the City of Obninsk, colonel Podgurskii, requested to bring a criminal action against Dmitrii Neverovskii. Earlier the Military Commissar of Obninsk had asked the Prosecutor and the Federal Security Service to bring a criminal action against the mother of Dmitrii Neverovskii - Tat'yana Mikhailovna Kotlyar, Vice President of the ARA General Council, leader of the regional right-defence group in Obninsk, deputy of the City Assembly of Obninsk.

"There are valid grounds to suppose, - says the ARA Secretary in his declaration, - that the Prosecutor has brought the criminal case against Dmitrii Neverovskii for two reasons: first, in order to frighten other conscripts in Kaluga region, where many young men conscientiously object; second, in order to squeeze on the mother of Dmitrii Neverovskii, Tat'yana Kotlyar, candidate for the next State Duma".