From Russia without Love : The “ Fourth Wave ” of Global Human Trafficking

he roaring of the Boeing’s engine matched twenty-six-year-old Lena Nakhimovskaya’s barely suppressed excitement. So many months of preparation compressed into this one moment! It just proved that if you worked hard enough, you could get whatever you wanted. As the wheels finally hit the runway of Berlin’s Schönefeld airport, she heard a silken feminine voice speaking rapid German. The jet airliner came to a stop, and Lena gathered up her belongings: the dog-eared hardback Istoriya Berlina too thick to fit in her purse and a long “To Do” list. Its first item: “Ask Sergei to pay for German lessons.” A few minutes later she walked beside Sergei as they entered the terminal. She had met him shortly after answering the ad for a job in Berlin as housekeeper