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Profiteers establish a "mail-order bride" system after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Colloquially known as the "Natasha" trade, the system includes both "legal" and "illegal" trafficking. Women living in poverty are "bought" and "traded" from former Soviet bloc countries.

The center of human trafficking moves from Southeast Asia to Ukraine during this era.