In 1998, by Order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 100, the "Regulation on the Legal Service"was put into effect. The head of the legal service of the Ural Military District, Colonel of Justice Vladimir Belekhov, tells about the practice of working as legal advisers of the Ural Military District for the social and legal protection of military personnel and their families. - Readers of our magazine will be interested to know what is the legal service of the district? - We have 18 full-time positions of legal assistants for regiments, brigades, formations and 10 legal advisers. Unfortunately, 6 out of eighteen are vacant. There are objective and subjective reasons for this. Objectively, the only military university that supplies us with personnel today, the Military University of the Ministry of Defense, is not able to meet the requirements of the troops for the release of legal assistants. Over the past six years, only three graduates from this educational institution have come to our district. And among them, there is a pronounced tendency to return to Moscow at any cost. There were attempts to launch training courses for such specialists for the territories of Siberia and the Far East on the basis of Yekaterinburg Baku. We tried to create a law school, but this issue has not been resolved yet. Postponed, as they say, in a long box. As for the subjective reasons, there are some of them. And these reasons lie in the fact that the position of a legal assistant is currently unattractive for a graduate of a civil law university. These positions remain in the army structure of officers and are deprived of those monetary allowances that are received, for example, by military lawyers-employees of courts and prosecutor's offices. Our specialists have lower military ranks by regular categories. That is why virtually any graduate who has graduated from a law school with a degree in "military legal work" literally immediately after graduation tries t ... Read more