The original Russian-language decree, a 53-page signed scan, reproduced unaltered: two pages of decree and an annex setting out the main and reserve membership of each commission. The scan has no text layer; the English below was made from an OCR reading of it. The file has been re-saved with document metadata removed.
Initial military registration is the step at which Russian boys enter the conscription system, in the year they turn seventeen. This decree runs it in occupied Donetsk Oblast for everyone born in 2006, together with older men who should be registered and are not. It applies Russian federal law directly: the Law on Military Duty (53-FZ) and the government's Regulations on Military Registration. Medical examinations were scheduled for March 2023 at the place of residence or, for pupils and students, at the place of study, and the education ministry was told to coordinate schools and colleges. The interior ministry was to work with the military commissariats under a joint Defence, Interior and Migration Service instruction. The annex sets up 23 commissions, each chaired by a military commissar and including a local administration representative, a specialist in "professional psychological selection" and a panel of doctors, covering every district from the Donetsk city districts to Mariupol, Volnovakha and Manhush, which Russia had occupied less than a year earlier. For boys in Mariupol this was the first Russian registration cycle, nine months after the city fell.
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The decree (pages 1 and 2)
HEAD OF THE DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC · DECREE
On approving the membership of the commissions of the municipal formations of the Donetsk People's Republic for the initial military registration of citizens for 2023
Guided by Article 9 of Federal Law No. 53-FZ of 28 March 1998 "On military duty and military service" and Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 719 of 27 November 2006 "On approving the Regulations on military registration", for the organised conduct in 2023 of the initial military registration of citizens living in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, I DECREE:
1. To approve the main and reserve membership of the commissions of the municipal formations of the Donetsk People's Republic for the initial military registration of citizens (the commissions) for 2023, as set out in the annex.
2. To recommend that the heads of local administrations assist, within their competence, in: 2.1. creating the conditions for the commissions' work, assigning technical staff and transport; 2.2. organising, from 1 to 31 March 2023, the medical examination of citizens subject to initial military registration at their place of residence, and of those studying in general education organisations, vocational education organisations and higher education organisations at their place of study; 2.3. conducting the medical examination, treatment and assessment of these citizens in medical organisations in the municipal formations; 2.4. notifying in good time of the need to report to the military commissariats for initial military registration citizens born in 2006, and citizens of older ages who are not, but are obliged to be, on the military register.
3. To determine that: 3.1. the medical examination of citizens is conducted in the military commissariats of the municipal formations; 3.2. where medical organisations lack specialist doctors and nursing staff, the examination is conducted at medical organisations of the Donetsk People's Republic.
4. The Ministry of Education and Science of the Donetsk People's Republic shall coordinate the work of general education and vocational education organisations on the initial military registration of pupils in 2023, in accordance with Government Resolution No. 719.
5. The Ministry of Health of the Donetsk People's Republic shall: 5.1. determine the list of medical organisations for in-patient and out-patient examination and treatment of citizens subject to initial military registration; 5.2. provide the commissions with specialist doctors.
6. To recommend that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic ensure cooperation with the military commissariats on initial military registration, in accordance with the Instruction on cooperation between military commissariats, internal affairs bodies and the Federal Migration Service approved by joint order No. 366/789/197 of 10 September 2007.
7. The Military Commissar of the Donetsk People's Republic shall report on the results by 30 April 2023.
8. Control over this decree is entrusted to the Head of the Administration of the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, A. Yu. Nikonorov.
9. This decree enters into force on signature.
Acting Head of the Donetsk People's Republic D. V. Pushilin
Donetsk, 18 February 2023, No. 54
Annex (pages 3 to 53): the commissions
Each commission has a main and a reserve membership. The chair is the military commissar of the district commissariat (in the main membership, an officer); members are a representative of the local administration and a specialist in professional psychological selection from the commissariat; the secretary is a commissariat nurse or paramedic; and the medical panel is led by a doctor and includes a general practitioner, neurologist, psychiatrist, surgeon, ophthalmologist, ear, nose and throat specialist and dentist.
The 23 commissions cover: the Kyivskyi, Voroshylovskyi and Kalininskyi districts of Donetsk; the Proletarskyi and Budonnivskyi districts of Donetsk; the Petrovskyi and Kuibyshevskyi districts of Donetsk; the Tsentralno-Miskyi, Sovietskyi and Chervonohvardiiskyi districts of Makiivka (one commission each); Yasynuvata; Horlivka; Amvrosiivka district; Yenakiieve; Debaltseve; Zhdanivka; Novoazovsk district; Telmanove district; Snizhne district; Torez district; Starobesheve district; Khartsyzk; Shakhtarsk; Kirovske; Mariupol, Mariupol district and the Illichivskyi and Volodarskyi districts; Volnovakha district; and Manhush district.