It IS indeed human trafficking, not directly by AB but by its advertisers. And you are a party to it...

1. Why does AB delete questions about hookers but at the
same time has ads selling Russian women?
It IS indeed human trafficking, not directly by AB but by its advertisers. And you are a party to it by
providing content here to attract "customers." Try reading reports by the world's most reputable
organizations such as the United Nations UNICEF report on human trafficking in the Russian
federation:
http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/Unicef_EnglishBook%281%29.pdf
"Young girls, seeking foreign partners, are offered "dating services" that place them into traffickers'
hands. Job seekers are offered help "obtaining employment", which turns into slave labour. It is
these gaps in current economic and social systems and contemporary migration and other regimes
which make such forms of human exploitation possible, and allow such exploitation to become
inherent components of work arrangements."
You can also read the United States Senate hearing minutes on "Human Trafficking: Mail Order
Bride Abuses"
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-108shrg96804/html/CHRG-108shrg96804.htm
A more in-depth scholarly publication out of University of California Press and Johns Hopkins
University:
Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages.
Nicole Constable (Author)
(Univ. of Calif. Press 2003). "The mail-order bride trade parallels traditional human trafficking
patterns between developing nations and wealthy nations."
Hearing, supra note 9, at 15 (statement of Michelle A. Clark, Co-Director, Protection Project of the
Foreign Policy Inst. Johns Hopkins Univ.).
Horse hockey. The State Department does and has done for years all sorts of studies on "mail order
brides". The reason being is that it is somewhat responsible to not allow unsavory characters into
the country. And it provides special immigration status for these women. They come into the US
under a different immigration plan than the average immigrant. The immigration process is
shortened, quicker and easier mainly because a wife has responsibilities to get a family up and
running. Now, you should go read the official studies of the State Department. You will find that the
statistics on "mail order brides" is the same or better than "normal".
What you are doing is equating match making services with organized crime. It is not the same. It is
like equating the high school prom to drunken pornography.
We can guess why you're a denier, Have a few mail order brides locked in your basement, perhaps?
Here's what Jim Kouri said on the topic, as vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of

2. Police:
The Russian mob and human trafficking
Russian mobsters consort with terrorists, slave traders
By Jim Kouri
From Himalayan villages to Eastern European cities, people -- especially women and girls -- are
attracted by the prospect of a well-paid job as a domestic servant, waitress or factory worker.
Human traffickers recruit victims through fake advertisements, mail-order bride catalogues and
casual acquaintances. Upon arrival at their destination, victims are placed in conditions controlled
by traffickers while they are exploited to earn illicit revenues. Many are physically confined, their
travel or identity documents are taken away and they or their families are threatened if they do not
cooperate.
Women and girls forced to work as prostitutes are blackmailed by the threat that traffickers will tell
their families. Trafficked children are dependent on their traffickers for food, shelter and other basic
necessities. Traffickers also play on victims' fears that authorities in a strange country will prosecute
or deport them if they ask for help. A major purveyor of these de facto slaves is the Russian
organized crime syndicate. Brutal, cunning and ruthless, these 21st Century mobsters present a new
threat to US national security.
Over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached epidemic proportions. No country is
immune. The search for work abroad has been fueled by economic disparity, high unemployment
and the disruption of traditional livelihoods. Traffickers face few risks and can earn huge profits by
taking advantage of large numbers of potential immigrants. Trafficking in human beings is a crime
in which victims are moved from poor environments to more affluent ones, with the profits flowing in
the opposite direction, a pattern often repeated at the domestic, regional and global levels. It is
believed to be growing fastest in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
In Asia, girls from villages in Nepal and Bangladesh -- the majority of whom are under 18 -- are sold
to brothels in India for $1000. Trafficked women from Thailand and the Philippines are increasingly
being joined by women from other countries in Southeast Asia. Europe (European InterPol)
estimates that the industry is now worth several billion dollars a year. Trafficking in human beings is
not confined to the sex industry. Children are trafficked to work in sweatshops as bonded labor and
men work illegally in the "three D-jobs" -- dirty, difficult and dangerous. A recent CIA report
estimated that between 45,000 to 50,000 women and children are brought to the United States
every year under false pretenses and are forced to work as prostitutes, abused laborers or servants.
UNICEF estimates that more than 200,000 children are enslaved by cross-border smuggling in West
and Central Africa. The children are often "sold" by unsuspecting parents who believe their children
are going to be looked after, learn a trade or be educated.
In the decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has become the target of a new
global crime threat from criminal organizations and criminal activities that have poured forth over
the borders of Russia and other former Soviet republics such as Ukraine. The nature and variety of
the crimes being committed seem unlimited -- trafficking in women and children, drugs, arms
trafficking, stolen automobiles, and money laundering are among the most prevalent. The spillover is
particularly troubling to Europe because of its geographical proximity to Russia, and to Israel,
because of its large numbers of Russian immigrants. But no area of the world seems immune to this
menace, especially not the United States....

3. America is the land of opportunity for unloading criminal goods and laundering dirty money. For that
reason -- and because, unfortunately, much of the examination of Russian organized crime (the so-called
"Russian Mafia") to date has been rather hyperbolic and sketchy -- many in law enforcement
believe it is important to step back and take an objective look at this growing phenomenon.
As in the United States, there is no universally accepted definition of organized crime in Russia, in
major part because Russian law provides no legal definition of organized crime. Analysis of
criminological sources, however, enables one to identify some of its basic characteristics. These
include organizational features that make Russian organized crime unique in the degree to which it
is embedded in the post-Soviet political system. At the same time, however, it has certain features in
common with such other well-known varieties of organized crime as the Italian Mafia. The latter has
a complicated history that includes both cooperation and conflict with the Italian state. Much more
than was ever the case with the Italian Mafia, however, Russian organized crime is uniquely a
descendant of the Soviet state.
Russian organized crime has come to plague many areas of the globe since the demise of the Soviet
Union just more than a decade ago. The transnational character of Russian organized crime, when
coupled with its high degree of sophistication and ruthlessness, has attracted the world's attention
and concern to what has become known as a global Russian Mafia. Along with this concern,
however, has come a fair amount of misunderstanding and stereotyping with respect to Russian
organized crime.
Trafficking is almost always a form of organized crime and should be dealt with using criminal
powers to investigate and prosecute offenders for trafficking and any other criminal activities in
which they engage. Trafficked persons should also be seen as victims of crime. Support and
protection of victims is a humanitarian objective and an important means of ensuring that victims
are willing and able to assist in criminal cases. As with other forms of organized crime, trafficking
has globalized. Groups formerly active in specific routes or regions have expanded the geographical
scope of their activities to explore new markets. Some have merged or formed cooperative
relationships, expanding their geographical reach and range of criminal activities. Illegal migrants
and trafficking victims have become another commodity in a larger realm of criminal commerce
involving other commodities, such as narcotic drugs and firearms or weapons and money laundering,
that generate illicit revenues or seek to reduce risks for traffickers.
With respect to organized crime, certain geographical or infrastructure characteristics, such as the
presence of seaports, international airports, strategic border locations, rich natural resources, and
so on, provide special criminal opportunities that can best be exploited by criminals who are
organized. More so than common crime, organized crime is fed by the presence of ethnic minorities
who furnish a ready supply of both victims and the offenders to victimize them. Organized crime also
thrives in environments characterized by a relatively high tolerance of deviance and a
romanticization of crime figures, especially where government and law enforcement are weak or
corrupt (the history of the Sicilian Mafia illustrates this).
Read the rest at:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kouri/050719
I am a denier because I am Russian and know many Russian ethnic girls who live here in the USA.
Many who went through the process that you refer to as a "mail order bride", and none of whom are
hookers. You should consider that most Russian girls believe that all Americans are criminals and
most men who would respond to a dating ad are trying to force a girl into prostitution by lying to

4. her. I didn't read the rest of your long response, because I know it is BS.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/3275705