Other Russia party activist called up for military service in Belarus

Igor Shchuka, a member of The Other Russia party, has been called up for military service in Belarus, though he is unfit to serve.

This information appeared on the account of his wife Anna on Vkontakte social networking website on May 26, kasparov.ru reports.

Anna wrote on May 23: “Igor's mom has called  and said he will be drafted. He leaves tomorrow at 5 in the morning. Don't have other details.”

As it was found out next day, Shchuka was sent to a training unit in Pechy for a month. He will later  go to mechanized infantry unit in Slonim.

Anna Shchuka notes her husband cannot serve in the army in time of peace because he has the limited duty status.

“He is underweight, has psychopathy, an ear fissure and so on,” she writes.

Shchuka was tried in Russia in 2009 for a political action in Khabarovsk. Under Belarusian laws (Shchuka is a citizen of BElarus), a person with a criminal record cannot serve in the army.

Anna is sure that Russian security service cooperate with Belarusian ones.

It should be reminded that The Other Russia Igor Shchuka was detained in July 2012 in Moscow at the Strategy 31 picket. Officer of the Russian counter-extremism centre Aleksei Okopny found Igor in the police bus and handed him a call-up order for the Belarusian army.