Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 13 – Moscow says that it convicted nine Russians for using slave labor in 2025, a figure about twice that in each of the previous 15 years but one that gives little information about just how much slavery is actually present in the Russian Federation, according to the To Be Precise portal.
Slavery-like cases, the portal says, are often investigated under other articles of the criminal code because such charges are easier to investigate and bring to trial” or they are ignored altogether until scandals break out (tochno.st/materials/osudili-za-ispolzovanie-rabskogo-truda-v-rossii-v-2025-godu). Between 220 and 880 cases of slavery “were hidden” under such alternative articles between 2010 and 2024, it estimates.
Ninety-two percent of these additional cases, To be Precise says, involved sexual exploitation and prostitution. This focus is perhaps understandable, but even it is incomplete: often officials ignore the problem and add the charge of slavery only as a result of media coverage and public outrage.
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