KingofTrolls said:
Yesterday i did some research about Russian army, and I find this : The Mother’s Right Foundation (Interregional Charitable Public Foundation ‘Pravo Materi’) is a Russian, non-profit, non-government human rights organization which works to protect the rights of families whose sons died in military service as a result of hazing, criminal actions, unsanitary living conditions, unhealthy psychological environment, etc.[2] According to the information of human rights activists, 3,000 people die annually while performing military service in the Russian army, and in many cases parents of dead soldiers do not receive any support from the government.[3] Is this true ? I'm totally shocked now.
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Not exactly true. No real information and a lot of spin.
1. I wouldn't believe CPOs, as many of them funded from abroad, and their mothods and information is questionable.
2. On the official information, deaths in army are: 2008 - 471, 2009 - 470, 2010 - 478.
3. In the interview of the organization you link to, I've read: 'Regarding Mother Right statistics, we can say for sure only the number of people who asking for our help. This information is— at 2010 fund consulted 4277 families, — за 2011 — 5207. Of course, sons of this people died in different years. '
and further: 'We feel that annually in army dies around 2-2,5 thousands.'
4. In the information on people dead included all cases - including non army related. For example if an officer on a way home gets hit by a car to death - this case will be included in the data.
5. On the statistics, population of Russia for 2013 is roughly 143.5 million people. In 2013 1.878 miliion people died, which is 1.3%.
Russian army is around 765 thousands now. The death rate in army is 0.06% on the official information, 0.32% on the Mother Right information. So it looks that death rate in Russian army is much lower then in Russia overall, so its a safer place for people.