May 15 is International Day of Conscientious Objectors. In Russia, this date can be considered the day of alternative civilian service. How it is possible to legally pay the debt to the Motherland, without wearing kirz boots, where it can be done by Tatarstan conscripts. Spoiler: staunch pacifists are welcomed in the positions of barmaids, sailors, theatre stagehands, and even. reindeer herders.
Pacifists, or believers, or representatives of small ethnicities
Alternative civilian service is a special type of labour activity in the interests of society and the state, carried out by citizens in exchange for conscription. An alternative military serviceman, unlike a soldier, has the right to get education at this time part-time or evening education.
Appointed less than 3 months ago, the head of the ministry of education and science of Tatarstan, Ilsur Khadiullin, summed up the results of the year in the field of education at his first press conference in his new position. He announced the opening of the Sirius educational centre in Kazan, the House of Scientific Collaboration in Yelabuga and two advanced training centres for teachers, promised that the vaccination against COVID-19 for teachers will only be voluntary, and the state exams will not be cancelled. How the salary of class teachers has changed, whether the problem of the second shift will be solved next year, how distance learning has affected the quality of education, and whether the minister should have a specialised education read in the material of Realnoe Vremya.