Modern-day slave trade snares Moldovans

A Transnistria border police officer from separatist region of Moldova looks at Ukraine border point at Kuchurgan-Pervomaysk, Ukraine-Moldova border point on April 15. The economically depressed former Soviet republic of 3.5 million people, especially its Russian-backed breakway region of Transnistria, is a hotbed of human trafficking.

Photo by A Transnistria border police officer from separatist region of Moldova looks at Ukraine border point at Kuchurgan-Pervomaysk, Ukraine-Moldova border point on April 15. The economically depressed former Soviet republic of 3.5 million people, especially its Russian-backed breakway region of Transnistria, is a hotbed of human trafficking.