“Conscription offices are one of the few things that lacked any reform in the past 20 or 30 years,” Sergey Krivenko, the chairman of a human rights group called Citizen. Army. Law tells Novaya-Europe. “All personal records of conscripts are still on paper only. There are some disjointed lists and fragmentary databases which have not been updated for years. The mobilisation has shown that this domain is a complete mess. So, the bosses reacted to it and ordered that all data should be compiled into a single database. Besides, should there be a major war against NATO, they would need to have complete info on everyone who can be mobilised.”
Krivenko believes that the Defence Ministry officials simply did not need an integrated database of this kind in the past as nobody thought such a mobilisation would ever be declared until recently.