Word: dimas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dmitry Valery Podkopaev--known as "Dima" to his friends--was born in a small village in the Ukraine called Vinnitsa. His family was poor; he was raised in a house with no electricity. Academics were his ticket out of poverty. He worked his way to top honors as an undergraduate mathematics student in Russia and went on to receive his master's in economics from the New Economics School in Moscow...
...front of Moscow's magnificent Bolshoi Theatre, where both local and foreign clients know to seek him out. Sasha pimps for a number of male teenagers who hang out with him near the Bolshoi, but his main "team" consists of three younger boys -- Marik, 8, and Volodya and Dima, both...
...exploitation of Marik, Volodya and Dima exemplifies the single most unsavory element of the worldwide growth in the sex trade: an explosion in child prostitution, driven in part by the fear of AIDS. In Moscow alone an estimated 1,000 boys and girls of tender age are selling their bodies. Three years ago, police say, there were only a very few. A similar rise in child prostitution has occurred in other Russian and East European cities. In the ( Third World the numbers are also staggering: an estimated 800,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand, 400,000 in India...