"During the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg in May 2003, the police raided brothels. The police booked fake appointments with sex workers pretending to be clients. They used fake money as a “test purchase” and then detained the sex workers for 48 hours in a solitary cells. The police then drove the street-based sex workers 200 km away from the center and left them there. It was a part of the police operations to “clean” the city for the celebration.
Raids against sex workers are carried out on a daily basis in Russia. On the eve of some important events, especially international ones, the police intensify raids in order to remove sex workers from the city. For example, during the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 the police forced everyone previously detained for ‘Engagement in Prostitution’ to leave the city. "
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