In lots of media, there can be traced a noticeable presence of the dating agencies. Not that they are overwhelmingly abundant and posted in all the newspapers, TV channels, or streets, they are still clearly visible, easily found, and quite overt in attracting women to “earn decently.” Earlier, such thing was inconceivable, those agencies that worked were much more careful and recruited women and staff exclusively in a net marketing manner. After they gradually got under the thrall of highly ranked police and SBU officers, government officials, receiving a certain percentage of agencies’ income as a tribute, there was no longer any need to hide.

That billboard is calling the local dating agencies, the prospective partners of the site, for collaboration. The function of those agencies is to recruit women who would then be registered on the dating site, they also organise photo and video shoots, so that there was a certain uniformity in the profile pictures of the women. Those agencies also hire translators, and other staff involved in the business – drivers, who make transfers to and from airport, landlords of the apartments and houses, etc etc. It is important to remember that the more intensive the correspondence of those girls is, the more money the local agency, its staff including the women get. Many of the sites and their partners overtly offer job in chat to young ladies. You should also bear in mind that women who don’t know English, never wrote letters, even in Russian. All their messages are composed by the ‘translators’, and their chats as well, when a woman is sitting before the webcam, and a translator chatting with a man.

The other two advertisements are from a newspaper, although it is not clear what job they are recruiting ladies for – it maybe some dating, or model, or escort agency, it may as well be some sort of brothel, or even a group involved in human trafficking. All of them have powerful protectors in the highest and middle layers of local and national authorities. Corruption make everything possible.

There also exist simple one sentence text adverts, like ‘Interesting job in correspondence and chat. $1 per letter, 50 cents per minute in chat.’

Such advertisements you may easily encounter in Kiev, in regional centres, and in all major cities and towns of Ukraine. This sort activity is especially blooming in economically depressed areas, where there are few jobs, and unemployment is very high.