Kazakhstan: Follow-up to KKT35740.E of 4 December 2000 on the situation of ethnic Russians in the military, the availability of alternative service and the medical reasons for postponement or exemption from military service (January 2000 - December 2000)
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 8 June 2001 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | KKT37374.E |
| Reference | 2 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Kazakhstan: Follow-up to KKT35740.E of 4 December 2000 on the situation of ethnic Russians in the military, the availability of alternative service and the medical reasons for postponement or exemption from military service (January 2000 - December 2000) , 8 June 2001, KKT37374.E , available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be568.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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In correspondence with the Research Directorate dated 26 February 2001, the Defence, Military and Air Attache of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Washington DC states:
The following medical reasons permit the citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan to postpone or be exempted from their compulsory military service:
– Cerebropathy, nervous system diseases (poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, facial palsy, strong concussion of the brain, osteosclerosis, cephalocele)
– heart diseases (birth heart trouble, acquired heart trouble, different kinds of myocarditis, arterial hypertension, strong tachycardia, cardiac deficiency)
– lungs diseases (chronic bronchitis with pulmonary inadequacy, pulmonary inadequacy, pulmonary tuberculosis)
– liver diseases (gallstone disease, hepatitis and other)
– kidney diseases (nephritis, gleet, pyelitis, kidney inadequacy, birth anomaly in development)
– Arthropathy (arcuation, strong flat-foot, osseous tuberculosis, osteochondritis, complicated with dorsal hernia, changing of osseous system as a result of trauma, for example amputation)
– Blood diseases (leucosis, leucaemia, pernicious anaemia, coronary deficiency)
– mental diseases (mental disorder, schizophrenia, depression)
– chronic alcoholism
– drug dependence
– high level myopia (- 6 dioptre)
– omphalocele
– bubonocele
– abnormality of aural perception
– congenital and acquired deafness
No information on the situation of ethnic Russians in the military or the availability of alternative service could be found by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Washington. 26 February 2001. Correspondence from Defence, Military and Air Attache.