Defense Ministry is preparing amendments to the legislation, according to which all contract servicemen will be required to pass a drug test, break the news.
Tests will be carried out during routine medical examination, the appointment to the new position and before alerting.
Once a year, all soldiers will necessarily "go the chemical-toxicological investigation of the presence in the body of narcotics man, psychotropic substances and their metabolites ", told the Defense Ministry.
Trying to evade checks will become the basis for an early dismissal without severance pay. The studies will be funded from the budget of the Ministry of Defense and held in military clinics and hospitals.
After the adoption of amendments to the soldier will be required to pass a drug test. Refusal will mean dismissal. If the serviceman blood find illegal substances, so, he committed an administrative offense. This will be an occasion to give up as a contract. One such violation would be sufficient for dismissal, He told the newspaper the founder of the Russian Association of Lawyers of law enforcement agencies "Guards" Oleg Zherdev.
According to Colonel Medical Service in stock, Candidate of Medical Sciences Igor Avilov, "The need to make such tests mandatory has been brewing for a long time".
Changes in the law make the test mandatory. Soldier will have to pass it, as now it goes fluorography. It used to be a plurality of failure mechanisms, it is not possible to identify all drug addicts troops, he explained.
