Russian president Vladimir Putin—whose supporters ran presidential campaign ads that showed a 52-year-old man, played by a popular police sitcom star, being conscripted into the army if Putin wasn’t reelected—announced indefinite extensions of military contracts, increased penalties for desertion, and drafted approximately 300,000 reservists, although it was reported that 1 million people will eventually be conscripted.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin—whose supporters ran presidential campaign ads that showed a 52-year-old man, played by a popular police sitcom star, being conscripted into the army if Putin wasn’t reelected—announced indefinite extensions of military contracts, increased penalties for desertion, and drafted approximately 300,000 reservists, although it was reported that 1 million people will eventually be conscripted.