The Ministry of defence revealed the loss of soldiers in 2012-2016
The publication of these data ceased in 2010.
In October 2017 the insurance company SOGAZ won the tender for the insurance of soldiers of the Russian Armed forces in 2018-2019, with a cost of 11.2 billion rubles. In addition to the notice of contest published Annex No. 3 to the tender documentation, which provides additional information to bidders. Among them — the list of types of insurance cases according to the Ministry of Finance order No. 63n from 14.04.2017 and are shown in table 2 statistics on the cases identified in this order as 6A — death. According to these data, in 2012 died 630 servicemen of the defense Ministry in 2013 — 596, 2014 — 790, in 2015, 626.
The defense Ministry stopped publishing statistics on deaths from all causes (disease, murder, suicide, accident, accidents, including exercises, combat losses) soldiers since 2010 At the same time, according to official statements, in 2008 killed 471 people in 2009 and 2010, according to prosecutors, killed 470 and 478, respectively.
According to a former officer of the defense Ministry, are insured all soldiers and conscripts, and contract servicemen, including officers, is therefore indicated in the tender documents, the figures shall relate to all categories of servicemen.
“Increase of costs associated with payment of insurance of servicemen and persons called up for military training, the defense budget of Russia is not provided. The amount allocated for these purposes for several years, remains virtually unchanged, and its size is mainly due to inflationary processes,” — said in comments the Ministry of defense. As noted in Department, the number of insurance claims over the past five years has been a steady downward trend. Over 80% of insurance claims occurs during off-duty hours, outside of the location of military units, and they are often classified as accidents and household injuries. The number of insured persons is calculated based on the methodology of the Ministry of defense to determine the insurance company the insurance rate. All insurance claims payments are made timely and in full, said the Ministry.