Experts say that 25% of the *advertiser censored* on global Internet websites contains child *advertiser censored*. Among these, more than 50% contain child *advertiser censored* from Russia. Although the precise number of children involved in the production of Russian *advertiser censored* is unknown, experts report there are some tens of thousands of such children.
The business is run by criminal networks that manufacture, distribute and export (to Germany, Britain, the United States, Italy, Canada and elsewhere) photographs and video records of a pornographic nature, including violent sexual assaults on children.
The production and consumption of pornographic products featuring children is especially pronounced in Moscow and St Petersburg. In the mid-1990s, pornographic images were mostly imported into Russia. They were expensive and distributed in narrow circles. Nowadays, one can buy videocassettes with child *advertiser censored* at practically any railway station or marketplace in these towns. Prices for child *advertiser censored* on the Moscow market are practically the same as for a licensed film cassette, 165 to 170 roubles (US$6-7); huge turnover makes these low prices possible. A well-known 12-part pornographic film called Malyavki (Little Ones) features boys as young as 6 years old. The popular Russian web search system Jandex yields no less than 405 sites and 19,864 pages in reply to the request for “child *advertiser censored* in Moscow”.
