Tatiana Moskalkova
Women should have the right to bear military service in the army. Such opinion on Wednesday, July 26, was expressed by the Commissioner for human rights in Russia, Tatiana Moskalkova, according to RIA Novosti.
“Maybe not everyone will support me, but I think that the girls we have infringed the right to serve military service soldier. They are not allowed, it’s wrong. We are tough, we can… worse than the boys serve in the army,” she said, speaking at the forum “Territory meanings on the Klyazma”.
According to the Ombudsman, she gets calls from girls who want to be pilots, but can’t because flight school will only accept men. “This reserve. It seems to me that the emergency service today in the social and material plan, and plan for the future is still very weak,” she added.
Moskalkova noted that today the Russian army has become stronger than 10 years ago, but it remains a problem, reports “Interfax”. Among them, the Ombudsman called the lack of indexation of salaries of military personnel and lack of assistance to widows in the performance of military service.
In March of this year, defense Minister Sergei Shoigu congratulated on the 8th of March all women in the army, noting that there are military service 45 thousand Russians, according to the newspaper “Arguments and facts”.
In 2012 Moskalkova, holding then a post of the Deputy of the state Duma from “Fair Russia” has suggested to call in the army all girls under the age of 18. However, she noted that women’s service should be voluntary. The initiative Moskalkova supported the member of the Duma Committee on defense Vladimir Ovsyannikov (LDPR), while the representatives of “United Russia” and the Communist party criticized this idea.
According to paragraph 1 of article 22 of the Federal law “On military duty and military service”, shall be subject to appeal only to male citizens. Women wishing to serve in the army, may enter into a contract with the defense Ministry.