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At an opening ceremony, the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, said the training would give a "new face" to Ukraine's conscript army, which is poorly trained and equipped and was caught out by the pro-Russia uprising that started in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in April 2014.

Separately on Monday, the newspaper Kommersant reported that a Russian conscript had appealed to the European court of human rights after army authorities denied his request to perform civilian rather than military service, which by law can be allowed to those whose personal beliefs prohibit them from fighting.

More ominously, voices sympathetic to Hizbullah whisper that its militia, widely seen as far tougher than Lebanon's ill-equipped conscript army, is ready to take swift control of ports, borders and main cities.

Their anger was triggered by the death of a young army conscript.

Now, his fate and the bullying that is common in conscript armies may only deter Taiwanese all the more from joining up voluntarily.Taiwan's plans to abolish conscription by 2015 come at a time of concerns about defence spending's dwindling share.

Armies dominated by conscript soldiers, serving for only ten months, are not much use for delicate peacekeeping missions, as many other European countries are finding.Hence the recent decision to phase out the draft between now and 2005 a break with tradition that has been welcomed on the political right and grudgingly accepted on the left.

These soldiers are replacing the conscript bachilleres, who "cost money but didn't do anything," says Luis Fernando Ramirez, the defence minister.

See articleIsrael's defence minister, Ehud Barak, gave the country's armed forces a month to prepare to conscript ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, after a law exempting them from serving expired at the end of July.

The slow move to a smaller, all-professional army in place of the million-strong, largely conscript force is made more urgent by Russia's demographic decline.The forces that invaded Georgia were largely made up of professionals.

He suggests creating a conscript corps which would support the military in non-combat roles clerical, logistical, medical; and an all-volunteer humanitarian intervention force, which might go into places such as Rwanda and Kosovo when there is a strong case for intervention but where American lives are not at stake.

But the government, which increasingly consists of army officers, continues to conscript yet more young people for national service.Many Eritreans would like to emigrate, but first they must apply for an exit visa.