Drones for Russia: Tatarstan College Inviting Kazakhstani Students to Work

In Astana, schoolchildren and students are given advertising brochures for the Alabuga Polytechnic College in Tatarstan, Orda reports.

Current Time writes that under the guise of receiving an education in Russia, young people from Kazakhstan are lured to a factory producing combat drones.

The Alabuga Polytech advertising brochure states that the company will happily hire any teenager from Kazakhstan aged 14 years and older.

The booklet does not conceal that the work will be at a plant producing combat drones for the Russian army; it emphasizes: “Assembling attack drones that destroy the enemy is cool.”

Current Time journalists called the number listed in the brochure.

College representatives confirmed that they were recruiting teenagers for a military factory.

We do not deceive our employees. Everything is fine. People come from the CIS countries, from all over Russia, to study with us, they said.

College students are reportedly banned from discussing their studies and work:

Those students from Alabuga who are involved in assembling drones are prohibited from talking about what they are doing, under risk of expulsion,  said journalist from "Protocol," Alexander Savelyev.

Savelyev says that a violation results in a student paying a fine of one and a half to two million rubles.

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science of Kazakhstan and the country's authorities have not commented on the brochures or the recruitment, notes Current Time.

Original Author: Rimma Karatayeva