Russian Military Service

[Josh Wilson]

The American citizenship would not help. Dual citizens are considered to be
primarily citizens of the country they are currently physically in. 

Thus, while the US embassy might be able to help him find legal council
should he require it, they would not be able to interfere otherwise. As the
young man is a Russian citizen, he is applicable to Russian laws on
conscription. 

A few additional facts that the list may be interested in as concerns
dual-citizen travel can be found here:
http://www.sras.org/guides_dual_citizens 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org


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A good place to ask about this might be the office of the journal 
"Alternativschik" - the contact I have for them is dd.moskva at gmail.com
Probably best to write in Russian.
John Langran
www.ruslan.co.uk


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From: "Erika Haber" <ehaber at SYR.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:11 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Military Service


Dear Seelangers:

In one of my classes this term I have a male heritage speaker, who left
Russia as a baby and now wants to go back to visit family this spring. He
holds dual citizenships: US and Russian. He has heard rumors that if he
tries to enter the country, his family will be asked to pay a bribe to
keep him from having to serve in the Russian military. Is there any way to
avoid this extortion? Does his US citizenship help in any way?

Any advice from your collective wisdom would be greatly appreciated on
this subject.
Please reply off list to ehaber at syr.edu

Many thanks!
Erika

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Erika Haber
Associate Professor of Russian
Language, Literature & Culture
http://lang.syr.edu/languages/Russian/Russian-index.html
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Department
324 H.B. Crouse Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244  U.S.A
ehaber at syr.edu
315-443-4200

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