The Kremlin, struggling to recruit the soldiers required to cover massive casualties in Ukraine, is now tapping educational institutions for their supply of young men.
Quotas have reportedly been introduced in some institutions, and secret recordings of academic staff and military officials trying to enlist students have gone viral online.
Russian service members take part in a military parade on the streets of Moscow in May.
While neither Ukraine nor Russia releases official numbers of soldiers killed and injured, many analysts believe Moscow's army has been shrinking for the past five months.
The country's prisons have already been raided, and the government is trying to avoid initiating another deeply unpopular forced mobilisation.
The independent Russian news outlet, Groza, has reported there are more than 250 universities and technical colleges taking part in the recruitment drive.
It really depends on what sort of battlefield necessities Russia will have," Ms Seskuria said. »