Alabuga Polytech: Education, Coercion, and Russia’s Drone War SEO title: Alabuga Polytech: How Russia’s Drone War Recruits Young Workers Meta description: An OSINT investigation into Alabuga Polytech, student labor, foreign recruitment, working conditions and the school’s links to Russia’s Shahed-136 drone production. Keywords: Alabuga Polytech, Alabuga Special Economic Zone, Yelabuga drone factory, Shahed-136, Geran-2, Russian drone production, student labor, youth exploitation, forced labor, Alabuga Start, OSINT, Russia military-industrial complex --- The question is not whether they are “slaves” Calling students at Russia’s Alabuga Polytech “slaves” or “Janissaries” may produce a powerful headline. Calling them victims of “Stockholm syndrome” may sound psychologically compelling. Neither is the most useful starting point for an investigation. The harder question is more concrete: What happens when an educational institution becomes structurally integrated into a military-industrial ...
