Underage college students in Tatarstan are forced to assamble Shahed drones used to attack Ukraine.
The AP was opened in April 2021, with much fanfare, as a place which would "grow Elon Musks" for Russia – where brilliant teenagers would study engineering and technology, and put their skills to work in a state-of-the-art production facility.
8/ The reality has turned out to be somewhat different. At least two students are reported to have died by suicide. Teaching standards are said to be poor, and conditions for the students are basic at best. As Protokol/RZVRT describes it:
9/ "Many students are busy studying or working from eight in the morning until late in the evening, and they simply do not have time to cook, wash clothes, do sports, or have a simple rest.
10/ "They have no opportunity to buy groceries - the shift bus to the nearest shop runs once a week. The rest of the time students have to eat in the canteen, but this is only if they are lucky enough to work in the main office
"The rest of them are content with vending machines, the assortment of which is limited to chocolate bars, chips, instant noodles, and sometimes canned food.
12/ "The situation with medicine is no better: the nearest doctor, with the exception of a nurse at the college, is in the city, which can be reached only by appointment and only by taxi. The cost of a one-way trip starts from 400 rubles.
13/ "One also has to go there to get medicines at the pharmacy. Students only find out about all this after they get there."
14/ At the beginning of the school year, the administrators ordered "a whole truckload of paintballs" for Hunger Games-style mass paintball battles in which they are made to fight each other, 'reenacting' the Battle of Stalingrad against 'Nazis' wearing the NATO symbol
The AP was opened in April 2021, with much fanfare, as a place which would "grow Elon Musks" for Russia – where brilliant teenagers would study engineering and technology, and put their skills to work in a state-of-the-art production facility.
8/ The reality has turned out to be somewhat different. At least two students are reported to have died by suicide. Teaching standards are said to be poor, and conditions for the students are basic at best. As Protokol/RZVRT describes it:
9/ "Many students are busy studying or working from eight in the morning until late in the evening, and they simply do not have time to cook, wash clothes, do sports, or have a simple rest.
10/ "They have no opportunity to buy groceries - the shift bus to the nearest shop runs once a week. The rest of the time students have to eat in the canteen, but this is only if they are lucky enough to work in the main office
"The rest of them are content with vending machines, the assortment of which is limited to chocolate bars, chips, instant noodles, and sometimes canned food.
12/ "The situation with medicine is no better: the nearest doctor, with the exception of a nurse at the college, is in the city, which can be reached only by appointment and only by taxi. The cost of a one-way trip starts from 400 rubles.
13/ "One also has to go there to get medicines at the pharmacy. Students only find out about all this after they get there."
14/ At the beginning of the school year, the administrators ordered "a whole truckload of paintballs" for Hunger Games-style mass paintball battles in which they are made to fight each other, 'reenacting' the Battle of Stalingrad against 'Nazis' wearing the NATO symbol
