A thirty year old Russian guy from Tatarstan went on vacation to the Dominican Republic to enjoy Caribbean beaches and normal stuff. When he tried to leave his hotel, ZOG agents grabbed him, put him on a plane, and flew him straight to a California court where they charged him with crimes that could put him away for 27 years. His name is Artem Revensky, a hacker from a group called Sector 16 that broke into SCADA systems of oil facilities in Texas, a gas processing plant in Poltava, and tried to cause a blackout across all of Ukraine. He personally wrote to the Kremlin with a business proposal for 75 thousand dollars, promising to cause explosions, fires, and destruction of gas pipelines around the world, especially in Ukraine. When the ZOGs dug into his background, they found out he was an Alabuga employee working directly at the factory where combat drones are assembled.

This is just one of many recent news stories about this mysterious enterprise. Alabuga is the largest industrial production zone in Russia, located near Yelabuga in Tatarstan, created in 2006 to attract both Russian and foreign investment with tax breaks, ready infrastructure, and cheap land. In its best years, companies like Ford and Saint-Gobain moved in, and the Russian Ministry of Industry once called Alabuga the best special economic zone in Europe. The head of the zone has always been Timur Shagivaleev, who took over in 2011 and now appears in EU, US, Canada, and other countries' sanctions lists. After 2014, foreign investors started leaving because of sanctions and the falling economy, so Alabuga reoriented toward domestic residents.

Then after the partial mobilization started, the labor shortage became critical as workers went to the army or fled the country. To survive, Alabuga began taking defense orders specifically for producing Geran-2 drones, the Iranian Shaheds, and to assemble them they needed cheap hands. That's when Alabuga Polytech appeared in April 2021, a college that the head of Tatarstan opened with great fanfare, promising to produce genius engineers through a dual program of study plus work from the very first day. The ads promised students would earn 70 thousand rubles from their first year and get a World Skills certificate, even though all World Skills programs in Russia were stopped back in March 2022. By the end of 2025, an ad agency had compiled a list of over a hundred stop words that bloggers could never say in their promotions, including words like Shaheds, attack, explosion, bombing, hits, basement, and even misspelled variants.