Press Release, 5.12.2022

Photo: Mobilisation / Photo by Viktor Korotaev, Kommersant

The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia sent an appeal to Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister. The document refers to the need to issue a regulatory legal act on the completion of partial mobilisation.

Earlier, Yabloko deputies in the Karelian parliament, followed by deputies from the Yabloko deputies in the Moscow City Duma, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies and the City Duma of Novgorod, had appealed to President Putin with a call to issue a decree on the completion of partial mobilisation.

“The previously stated argumentation was supplemented by the fact that the Chita Military Court, in its decision of 23 November, 2022, in case No. 2а-211/2022, considered the argument that the partial mobilisation had not been stopped ungrounded, as the Presidential Decree announcing mobilisaton had not been canceled and continued to be in force. According to the court, information received from the media (television) cannot replace the normative legal acts published in accordance with the established procedure,” Emilia Slabunova,  the initiator of the appeal and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, writes in her Telegram channel.

According to Slabunova, the State Courier Service will deliver the appeal to the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation tomorrow morning.