Member of the Parliament suggested to replace the word "prostitute" by the term "commercial sex worker"
22-07-2002
Interfax
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on women's family and youth issues Alexander Barannikov (SPS fraction) thinkss that prostitutes should pay taxes. According to the police data, as A.Barannikov pointed, more than 15 000 girls are busy in the sphere of prostitution in Moscow and Moscow Region only, daily turnover makes an average of half a million US$, and yearly turnover - 182 million US$.
"Consolidation of civil society structures" for networks of non-commercial organizations Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) - Russia is announcing the open grant project competition "Consolidation of civil society structures" for networks of non-commercial organizations.
On the 29th of June 2002 regional social organization "League of women voters of Kaliningrad region" conducted seminar "Gender approach to solving of social problems" in Chernyakhovsk in the frames of the project "Gender expertise of the regional legislation".
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