The rights organization School for Conscripts reported two cases in which Russia’s electronic military registry contained the actual residential addresses of people liable for military service even though those addresses differed from their official registration.
In one case, a man officially registered in the Murmansk region found that the registry contained the address of an apartment he was informally renting in Tatarstan.
In the second case, a resident of the Komi Republic found his actual address in the Leningrad region in the system.
Both men said neither they nor their relatives had provided those addresses to military enlistment offices.
The rights group does not know which source supplied the information to the registry. Two cases do not prove that the system automatically obtains the actual address of every person liable for military service, but they show that the registry can contain information that individuals did not directly provide to enlistment offices.