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Russia ups publicity game online after International rights group damning report

"Alabuga Start" is a programme aimed at training and employing foreign nationals in Russia. [Courtesy]

Russia's Special Economic Zone (SEZ), described by independent Russian and Western media as an exploitative cheap labour push to staff Russian war factories, has upped its publicity campaign weeks after a damning rights group report.

Engaging new methods of generating marketing messages and spreading them through new media, the SEZ programme known as Alabuga Start seemed to put up a fight following the 8 May report by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GIATOC).

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