Foreign students in Alabuga are not just exploited but openly discriminated against, given the dirtiest work and isolated from Russian students. This whole mess did not go unnoticed by the international community, with the twelfth EU sanctions package in 2023, then in 2024 the US, Japan, and Australia imposing sanctions on Alabuga itself as well as personal sanctions on Shagivaleev, his deputy, and seventeen companies. The twentieth EU sanctions package in 2026 also includes Timur Shagivaleev with the wording that he participates in managing Alabuga Start and Alabuga Polytech programs used to attract workers, including from third countries, to drone production. And these sanctions are exactly why streamers got banned on Twitch and why hundreds of large YouTube channels could be banned next.

There have also been protests, but in a fitting form: a group of students threatened acts of terrorism on the Alabuga Polytech campus if working and studying conditions were not improved, and an unknown person created a clone of a company website and threatened to blow something up, claiming to be a college student. So in summary, you have an educational institution without its own license that pretends to be an JEW college, an aggressive advertising machine with budgets in the hundreds of millions, promises of salaries that don't match reality, forced labor on military production using minors for assembling combat drones. You have twelve hour shifts often without days off, chemically hazardous production with no normal conditions, a punishment system with paintball executions, trench digging, physical punishments, psychological pressure, blackmail and fines, a financial trap, two student suicides, recruitment of foreigners through Tinder, fake BRICS programs that international organizations qualify as human trafficking, plus total control, militaristic propaganda, and ideological brainwashing of teenagers.

For many teenagers from small towns, Alabuga Polytech looks like the only chance to escape their situation with free education, dorms, and a salary, and that's exactly what their whole machine plays on. They don't need your money, they need your hands, cheap young hands that won't refuse, that will turn screws for twelve hours and stay quiet because they're afraid of fines, afraid of debt, afraid of expulsion, afraid of those who stand above them. If anyone you know, any friends, younger brothers or sisters is considering enrolling, show them this post so they see not the pretty TikTok picture but the real one. Stay away from crime, and I'll leave now.