Mobilisation has not been announced in Russia, but the 2022 decree remains in force and the digital conscription register is now fully operational: draft notices arrive in a personal online account and restrictions follow automatically. We set out who can be called up and on what grounds, what to do when a notice arrives, which legal grounds for exemption actually exist, and what happens to those who fail to appear.
Questions and answers: Mobilisation and draft notices →
September 18, 2026
Draft Notices Abroad: What Russians Who Have Left Need to Know
Russian consulates have no power to serve draft notices — that much is settled. What is less understood is that the digital register operates regardless of where you are, and the restrictions it imposes in absentia do not expire. What an emigrant is legally obliged to do, how to come off the register by proxy, and what happens on re-entry.