Major-General Evgeny Feoktistov, Military Commissar of the Khabarovsk Territory, tells about the problems of selecting applicants for military universities - Evgeny Vladimirovich, you will soon again have to work for many months to conduct professional selection of candidates from among civilian youth to study in military educational institutions. But let's analyze what we've already done. In particular, did the task for selecting candidates received by the Regional Military Commissariat for 2000 differ from the tasks of previous years? - If you look at the quantitative indicators, the year 2000 can be called a turning point. In the old days, apparently, due to the reduction in the number of military universities in the country and their reorganization, plans for the selection of candidates changed in descending order. A downward trend has been observed since 1996. And only in 2000 there was a turning point, the number of applicants began to grow again. We selected candidates for 73 educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and 16 educational institutions of other ministries and departments (universities of the Railway and Border Troops, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FAPSI, the Ministry of Emergency Situations), as well as for Nakhimov, Suvorov military schools, Military Music School, cadet corps and a general boarding school with initial flight training located in Astrakhan. - If twenty years ago training in an airborne or flight school was considered prestigious, and in the years of post-perestroika confusion, the competition for home front schools increased, then what military specialties are highly valued among today's youth? - Today there is a rather high competition for the Military Institute of Government Communications (Orel), the Khabarovsk Military Institute of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation and the Faculty of Law of the Military University (Moscow). The profession of a military lawye ... Читать далее