Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying an agreement with the Republic of South Ossetia on the procedure for calculating length of service for the assigning of a monthly bonus for contract servicemen and for establishing the amount of such bonus for military pensioners. The document was published on Friday on the official portal of legal information.
The agreement was signed in Moscow on February 10. The Head of State submitted the document for ratification to the State Duma in September. The lower House of Parliament ratified the agreement on October 21, the Federation Council - on November 10.
According to the explanatory note, the conclusion of such an agreement was dictated by the need to "preserve for servicemen, as well as for persons dismissed from military service, the right to grant a monthly allowance" taking into account the length of service they have acquired in service in the armed forces and other military formations of Russia and South Ossetia "provided that during the periods of their military service they were citizens of one of the parties."
The law establishes that "servicemen undergoing military service under contract in the armed forces of one party, in the length of service for granting a monthly bonus for length of service are counted in calendar terms, the periods of their military service in the armed forces of the other side" if they have citizenship. A similar rule is introduced for military personnel who served in one of the countries that are parties to the agreement and retired, which is granted in accordance with the laws of another country.
