An Australian-based human rights group has estimated 1.05 million people in Russia live as slaves. The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian-based human rights group, estimated in its inaugural slavery index last year that 29.8 million people worldwide were born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, trapped in debt bondage or exploited for forced labor.
Reuters: More than one million people in Russia live as slaves, study finds
A man holds a mask of Russia's president Vladimir Putin during an anti oligarchic march of left wing opposition activists in Moscow on Nov. 15, 2014.
