Hi there, newbie!
Russian military service requirements are publicly researchable, but the situation with Fedotov has made it clear that the Russian gov't is going to enforce that requirement however the f*ck they feel like.
Maybe the player is allowed to play in North America. Or, maybe the player will be drugged and sent to a prison camp in the arctic circle
The issue is *not* whether the US/Canada will require Russians to claim refugee status (seriously, that is a wildly misinformed statement), but whether Putin will allow them to leave Russia at all.
@Fjordy is our resident expert on Russian drama...whatever he says comes from a far more informed place than any of the rest of us.
Edit: and apparently I'm 6 minutes behind
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