The social media ads promised the young African women a free plane ticket, money and a faraway adventure in Europe. Just complete a computer game and a 100-word Russian vocabulary test. But instead of ...

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia's Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow's war in ...

In August, the South African government said an investigation found that more than a thousand women were recruited from across Africa to work in drone-assembling factories in Russia. The women were ...

Patricia Kilinga one of the individuals in Africa linked to Alabuga Start. [Association of European Investigative journalists/Courtesy] Fresh revelations have emerged listing names and faces of ...

About 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into ...

Russia’s trap that has been netting African women in slave-like labour in its Special Economic Zone that lies at least 650 miles southeast of Moscow is turning out to be another problem that Moscow ...

The Alabuga Start programme is actively expanding in Russia, aimed at relocating young women from Africa, India, and Latin America to pursue employment and career advancement. Over the past few years, ...

Alabuga Start international program is becoming increasingly popular among young people in our country. This initiative offers young women aged 18 to 22 the chance to move to Russia and start building ...

Alabuga Start’s social media pages are filled with comments from Africans begging for work and saying they applied but have yet to receive an answer. The program was promoted by education ministries ...