Authorities turn blind eye on Far East Russia women trafficking / Khaleej Times, 12 Feb 2005

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"Agencies are part of well-organized criminal networks, said Svetlana Bazhenova, whose non-governmental organization, Dalnevostochny Tsentr (The Far-East Center), has been fighting women trafficking since 2002. International criminal groups have set up networks that have branches in Russia�s Far East and send women to countries of the Asia-Pacific region."