The autumn draft in Russia this year will be halved this autumn, General-Colonel Vasily Smirnov, Deputy Commander of the Russian General Staff, head of the main organization-mobilization department, said in a video conference with Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg and Khabarovsk on Friday, RIA Novosti reports.
135,850 citizens will be called to arms in October-December 2011. 218,700 were called up from April 1 to July 15, 2011, a drop by 60,000, compared with autumn 2010.
