Visa for my son

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My wife's son is in the Russian army at the present time. We wonder if his seemingly good treatment relates to his mother living in the USA. He is allowed to take phone calls from his mother which strikes me as unique given Russian harshness towards recruits.

He was interviewed by the KGB before entering the Army so maybe they don't want bad press in the USA. He has a one-year tour of duty which seems a waste of time to me but he seems to be OK and without abuse. But Medvedev and Putin what to bring the old Red Army out of moth balls, so longer tours may be implemented soon. There was a lot of suicide in the Russian Army do to cruel treatment and abuse which led to the short tours mandated by Putin until recently.

Their equipment is woefully outdated and in need of repairs and replacement. With the drop in petro dollars, not sure where the rubles will come from to revive the great Red Army.

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Not that I know anything at all about how the in-processing procedure works, but it seems a little irregular that he would be interviewed by the FSB as just a normal conscript.

Even a normal conscript whose mom lives in U.S.?

Most our our enlistees who have foreign connections are, at minimum, interviewed by DOD/DOS personnel somebody or other.

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mox, could you go ahead and fix our economy by identifying our wasteful military practices first? (There's this whole thing we're wasting money on right now, it's right between Iran and Syria.... maybe you've heard of it?)

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Spreading it thin is right!

I can't wait til we start seeing some of this wealth that Obama's promised to spread.

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I'd be happy with a little of that change they were talking about. As of now, all I have is hope.

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So one year is the timeline?

I'm with you, he was handed a big $#!t sandwich and forced to eat it. I just hope that his plan of making $#!t sandwiches popular, and even cool, is going to work. He's basically just said, "we're all going to eat $#!t sandwiches and we're all going to like them because Americans love to eat $#!t sandwiches!" The media picked it up and ran with it so who knows, maybe $#!t sandwiches will be permanantley on the menu after this year.

Was that the change he was talking about?