The immense brightly lit hall features powerful black hulls of unmanned Geran-2 aircraft, the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed-136. They are 3.5 metres long, scope 1800 kilometres and can scope 300 km/h. With these, the Russians carry out attacks on Ukrainian cities. – We must give justice to the strategical foresight of those who predicted this war. Good thing we're ready for her – says the director. 1 of the rooms has a banner: Chicken, Korolow and Stalin live in your DNA. Physicist Igor Kurczatov is the father of the russian atomic bomb, engineer Sergei Korolow was the father of russian cosmonautics, Stalin request not be portrayed. The opinion on genetic affinity with russian icons has already come from the press services of the region 2 years ago, erstwhile “Alabuga” was subject to EU sanctions and its management promised Europe Tough answer.
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The camera is circling the hall, showing the workers, smearing their faces. Lektor comments: – Hundreds of machines, thousands of workers, and wherever you look, young people everywhere. Boys and girls work here, as well as studying in a college founded by the same people who organized drone production. The professional method school of Alabuga Politech provides inexpensive labour, although the work of minors in Russia is illegal. The Tatarstan authorities tried to change the law. Developed Employment aid strategy students from the age of 14 and a draft amendment to the Russian Federation's Labour Code, enabling 16-year-olds to be employed in dangerous and health-threatening economical sectors. no of the ideas have been realised yet, but the kids are recruited.
Already in 2023, a joint investigation by journalists of the paper "Protocol" and the RZVRT channel, published on YouTuba, showed that Several 100 students from Alabuga Politech were active in the assembly of drones. Initially, this was mainly done by teenagers aged between 15 and 17 who began schooling after the ninth grade of simple school. Currently, students from all yearbooks are active in the assembly of drones. Their monthly wage 2 years ago was between 30 and 40,000 rubles, overtime salaries and Sunday work were not received. Students from Alabuga who assemble drones are prohibited from talking about what they do under the threat of expulsion – tells Aleksandr Sawieljev, writer of the Protocol. – The contract signed by them prohibits the disclosure of information about Alabuda in general and the stages of training. A student must pay a fine of between 1 and 2 million rubles for violating the ban.
Actually, the kids are in captivity.
Quitting their jobs equals leaving college, which could ruin their families financially. Before taking a kid to school, parents gotta accept the contract, and her break-up involves reimbursement of education costs. According to Interpol reports, underage students from African countries were besides recruited to “Alabug” as part of the “work-studio” programme. The investigation into possible trafficking in human beings was initiated in April of that year after evidence and reports of victims. Meanwhile, the Ukrainians attack the peculiar economical region in Jełabuda. Of course, drones, due to the fact that distance secret mill from the Ukrainian border is over a 1000 kilometres. On April 2, 2024, the attack touched the Alabuga Politech dormitory. Fourteen students were injured.
Advertising brochures of schools distributed to youths from Russia, as well as from the erstwhile russian republics, specified as Kazakhstan, inform that the mill will gladly employment anyone at least 14 years old. We have people from all over the CIS coming here to survey with us. The authors of the text do not hide that it is about working to build weapons for the Russian army. They item the attractiveness of the class: Mounting assault drones that destruct the enemy is fun.
