500,000 women from ex-Soviet Union coerced into sex industry

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian newspapers are full of classified ads inviting young women to work abroad. Many of them offer ''a dancer's job for $40 per diem.'' Mariana Solomatova of the Angel Coalition, a federation of 43 human rights groups in Russia, said Jan. 8 that more than 500,000 women from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union are being forced to work in the sex industry in Japan and Western nations.

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