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RUSSIAN WOMEN FORCED TO WORK AS STRIP DANCERS IN ARMENIA - WIKILEAKS
Tert.am
25.08.11
A recent US cable released by the whistleblower WikiLeaks has
revealed that Russian women have been forced to work as strip dancers
in Armenia.
The document refers to the 6 July 2008 trial in Yerevan when Vera
and Elena Kaliakinas, both Russian citizens, were being tried for
bringing 24 people into Armenia by cheating them and forcing to dance
in various strip clubs.
Elena and Vera had been arrested in July 2008 in Yerevan.
Elena had been cooperating with Vera, her daughter, and with someone
named Vadim Taranov since 2005. Together they were recruiting their
potential "strip dancers" from the Russian city of Volgograd where
they have launched an employment agency.
By bringing those girls and women in Armenia, they would take their
passports away and force them to work as strip dancers.
The cable also said that this was the first time when Armenia's
judiciary applied the law on money-laundering and put hold on their
bank accounts.
The perpetrators were to be sentenced from seven to 12 years in prison.
In the end, the author of the cable says that the prosecutors tried to
qualify the case a sex-trafficking rather than employment trafficking.
The Russian embassy in Armenia did not show any interest in the case.
Even no representative from the embassy attended the trial, the
cable adds.
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
25.08.11
A recent US cable released by the whistleblower WikiLeaks has
revealed that Russian women have been forced to work as strip dancers
in Armenia.
The document refers to the 6 July 2008 trial in Yerevan when Vera
and Elena Kaliakinas, both Russian citizens, were being tried for
bringing 24 people into Armenia by cheating them and forcing to dance
in various strip clubs.
Elena and Vera had been arrested in July 2008 in Yerevan.
Elena had been cooperating with Vera, her daughter, and with someone
named Vadim Taranov since 2005. Together they were recruiting their
potential "strip dancers" from the Russian city of Volgograd where
they have launched an employment agency.
By bringing those girls and women in Armenia, they would take their
passports away and force them to work as strip dancers.
The cable also said that this was the first time when Armenia's
judiciary applied the law on money-laundering and put hold on their
bank accounts.
The perpetrators were to be sentenced from seven to 12 years in prison.
In the end, the author of the cable says that the prosecutors tried to
qualify the case a sex-trafficking rather than employment trafficking.
The Russian embassy in Armenia did not show any interest in the case.
Even no representative from the embassy attended the trial, the
cable adds.
From: A. Papazian