Word: ostrovskiy
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...published a cover story on the rise of prostitution around the world, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. As a following piece, we focused on a particularly terrible aspect of the problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were too explicit to publish. The ones...
...long after our cover story was published we began hearing ominous charges that they were not, charges emanating in particular from the photo editor of the Reuters bureau there, Richard Ellis. Soon the doubts were published as facts: that the boys were not prostitutes; that Ostrovskiy had paid the pimp and the boys to pose; that TIME had been duped...
Meanwhile, Ellis of Reuters and two colleagues had arranged to meet Sasha at the Bolshoi Theater garden to persuade him to say the story was false. Suspicious of Ellis' motives, Sasha brought a tape recorder in his pocket. On the tape, which Ostrovskiy obtained from Sasha and gave to TIME, Ellis and associates are plainly heard beseeching Sasha to say the pictures were staged, holding out the prospect that if he did so TIME would have to pay him "very good money. $20,000." They tell Sasha, "There is big money here. You and the kids can get real decent...
...struck by the fact that the majority of women who leaped into these unions did so out of economic desperation. Reporters fanned out to probe the phenomenon. At the same time, assistant picture editor Jay Colton came across moving photos of child prostitutes in Russia taken by Alexei Ostrovskiy...
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