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Cyberside by Aleksey Savchenko and Bert Jennings

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Aleksey Savchenko, At Dusk, 2020

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'Blooming Sally' by Aleksey Savchenko

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"Il ne faut pas dire quel sale temps mais quel beau jour de pluie !" 🍁☔🍂

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The X.LA Metaverse Revealed In Detail

The X.LA Metaverse Revealed In Detail

Cologne, Germany, 23rd August, 2022, Chainwire X.LA Foundation executive Aleksey Savchenko has revealed details of the eagerly anticipated X.LA Metaverse. Before an expectant crowd at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Savchenko promised an immersive experience, delineating a vision backed by technology that will shape the way people interact well into the next century. The X.LA Metaverse is built…

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Midnight River Lyrics - Pink Sweat$ feat. 6LACK

Midnight River Lyrics – Pink Sweat$ feat. 6LACK

Midnight River Lyrics by Pink Sweat$, 6LACK is the latest English song from “Pink Planet”. The song is produced by Kenneth Wright & Jayson DeZuzio while the song lyrics were written by 6LACK, Aleksei Savchenko, Pink Sweat$, Jayson DeZuzio & Kenneth Wright. “Midnight River” Song Details: Song Midnight River Lyrics Album Pink Planet Singer Pink Sweat$, 6LACK Produced By Kenneth Wright & Jayson…

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AAAAND CANADA WINS!! So happy for them they worked hard for it ❤❤❤ Especially because this way Patrick also got a gold medal - and I don’t think there is a better way to say goodbye to his competitive carrier than an Olympic gold (PATRICK HAS AN OLYMPIC GOLD, I REPEAT, PATRICK HAS AN OLYMPIC GOLD) And Gaby and Kaety and Scott and Tessa and Meagan and Eric… they all deserve it so much ❤❤ (also I hope Meagan and Eric can medal in the individuals too, although with Sui/Han, Savchenko/Massot and Tarasova/Morosov its not likely, but I heard that Tarasova got a minor injury so who knows - and you know anything can happen)

The two ladies skated superbly and I’m happy they both came here with programs they know and are confident with. Looking forward to see them next week And Tessa and Scott! Don’t you get me started on Tessa and Scott ❤❤ I love love love their programs so much this season - especially Roxanne which is my personal favourite (although I’m not particularly happy about the costume change…) Although I don’t think they were 100% in the free dance, I’m sure they will show their best in the individuals! And gosh what a showdown its going to be between them and P/C

Oh and Russia (Sorry… OAR)! AND ZHENYA (because you know what else you can do after an injury than breaking your own world record). Alina was great too and tho she’s never going to be my favourite I must admit she is brilliant technically. On the other hand poor Mikhail… I hope he can get himself together till Friday. And Bobrova/Soloviev totally deserved it and Tarasova/Morosov & Zabiiako/Enbert too! Just happy for everyone

Ohoho don’t worry USA I didn’t forget you ❤❤ Let me tell you how happy I am for Adam, Mirai and the Knierims getting an Olympic bronze; not only because I love them so much but because they were the only ones on the team who are not podium contenders (although its the Olympics and anything can happen so Mirai could medal - I would be soo happy ❤❤) or should I count Bradie also here? probably, but I’m not emotionally invested in her - not yet anyway 

Miraii!! My girl!! What a beauty that axel was!! The whole world was watching you, holding back their breathes and you made us soo proud ❤❤ I know after not being able to go to Sochi this mean a lot more to you that I can imagine 

And Adam ❤ you choose to do an ‘easier’ but more secure program but it was beautiful nonetheless - I hope tho that you land that one hell of a Rippon lutz of yours, I think I would actually cry to see it at the Olympics. 

My heart was broken for Nathan - Nemesis made me fall in love with him and it caused me physical pain to see him skate it so stiff and nervous. Hope he can be himself again on Friday (but. also. don’t you take the gold from Yuzu :D) 

And the Shibs were brilliant as always ❤❤ they are truly one in a million

(on the other teams who didn’t medal: Israel was a pleasant suprise, I was very proud of Aleksei; Korea did their best and totally deserve a gold medal for the coolest sunglasses; I’m kinda sad that Japan didn’t medal, but there was no chance anyway; China seriously needs to up their game in the Ladies event and not send everyone to pairs; Oh my gosh what a competition it was between Italy and the USA, like… it was really close, we were debating a lot on the forum; Let’s face it France you weren’t taking this seriously anyway; and Germany, I love you but Savchenko can’t win everything for you)

Goooosh so much emotions already. I don’t know how I’m going to survive the individual events (not only emotionally but physically - all of the events began around 2 am for me, so its like I watch skating till 5 or 6 am and than go to school; as you can imagine it’s not tiring at all 😅😅) Also guys please be nice to each other and to the skaters - I too have my personal favourites but its not a reason to hate on them. Never forget that the scores are never the skaters fault. 

And. AND. It’s the Olympics, everyone deserves to do their bests. So skate clean, don’t get injured and perform your heart out there 

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Produced by Deion of Ghoss & Aleksei Savchenko

2020

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LITTLE BIG - HYPNODANCER (Official Music Video) via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhMYBfF7-hE // Listen to «HYPNODANCER» by Little Big: https://wmr.lnk.to/Hypnodancer Music composed and produced by Ilia Prusikin, Lyubim Khomchuk, Viktor Sibrinin Lyrics by Ilia Prusikin, Danny Zuckerman Thanks to Denis Kukoyaka for inspiration. Official merch / Официальный мерч: https://bit.ly/2WAmMBN The filming of this music video took place in St Petersburg before the COVID-19 outbreak in the Russian Federation. LITTLE BIG: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littlebigbandofficial soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/littlebigrussia vk: http://vk.com/littlebigband twitter: https://twitter.com/LITTLEBIG_BAND website: http://littlebig.ru TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@littlebig LITTLE BIG production: Idea: Iliya Prusikin, Alina Pasok Script: Iliya Prusikin, Alina Pasok, Yuriy Muzychenko Director: Alina Pasok, Iliya Prusikin, Yuriy Muzychenko DOP: Alexander Pavlov Executive Producer: Anastasia Antipova Art director: Daria Ukhvatova Assistant Art Director: Olya Vasilyeva Style: Masha Sivyakova Stylist assistants: Kostya Goncharuk, Elmira Tulebaeva Property Master: Mariya Perkhun Casting: Anna Petrovskaya FANCY PEOPLE Junior producer: Ekaterina Mironova Production assistant and props: Roman Konshin, Maxim Harin, Zhenya Nadeina Chief Lighting technician: Stas Gerasimov Lightening crew: Pavel Ilyuk, Savchenko Igor, Baluev Sergey, Avakumov Denis Camera assistant: Igor Solovyov, Sychev Fedor Focuspuller (1st AC): Garik Vaganov, Yuri Zvezdin Playback: Sasha Secretarev Decorators: Kostikov Dmitry, Svintsov Pavel, Sasha Belyaev, Laguta Zhenya Administrator: Kolya Katromin Assistants: Tarankov Zhenya, Belov Vladislav, Pedro Nikita, Stupin Glory Make-up artist: Masha Francevich Make-up assistants: Katerina Marynycheva, Margarita Merzlyakova Hair: Dasha Neyman Special effects makeup: Rusakova Daria, Makov Victor Actors Coordinator: Emelyanova Maria Stage sound recording: Mikhail Zhukov Editing: Alina Pasok, Iliya Prusikin Colorist: Dmitriy Novikov VFX, CG: Alexandr Stepanov, Max Semenov Sound design: Stas Kravets Video backstage: Vlad Korolkov, Max Belsky, Kirill Myagkov Photo backstage: Zhenya Romanov Dance coordinator: Dilanyan Sima Starring: Iliya Prusikin Sonya Tayurskaya Anton Lissov Sergey Gokk Yuri Muzychenko Florida Chanturia Alexander Gudkov Danila Poperechnyy Ruslan Usachev Shilov Dmitriy Tuyneza Piter Fleytes Roberto Korshunov Aleksey Sidorova Galina Drebskaya Rada Finogentova Irina Shershukhin Dmitriy Morozkin Dmitriy Azelitskiy Nikita Polivtsev Oskar Mel'nik Aleksandr Udalov Aleksandr Pliss Sergey Shkerin Vlad Chistyakov Aleksandr Khamitov Oleg Elis Kul Technical equipment: LKS rental Special Thanks: Alexander Gudkov Vanya Fedotov Victor Sibrinin Ekaterina Timofeeva Boris Mikhalych Piotrovsky Natalya Chistyakova-Ionova Atelier "Soultiss" Vlad slav Lesha Zalozhuk Seresha Duborov We express our deepest gratitude to the LOTTE HOTEL ST. PETERSBURG, especially to Anna Uglova and General manager Uwe Kunz We express our deepest gratitude to the Restaurant "Metropol", especially to Irina Kalkina demetropole.ru We express our deepest gratitude to the Buddha-Bar Saint-Petersburg.

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The Sleazeball Peddling Russian Girls to Billionaires

Photo Illustation by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty; AlamyODESSA, Ukraine—Disgust flashed across Kristina Goncharova’s delicate features when she heard the name Peter Listerman. In Odessa, Ukraine’s graceful Black Sea resort, every local fashion agency and beauty contest organizer knows Listerman, a man always looking to hire Russian and Ukrainian models for his VIP escort agencies. And to 24-year-old Goncharova, Listerman’s name brings a whole storm of associations with dubious big-money characters treating teenage girls as if they were animals at a pet store. Even back in 2016, sources familiar with the beauty business were not surprised to see a report on the New York Post’s gossipy Page Six site connecting Listerman to Jeffrey Epstein: “Instead of having his assistants troll local high schools, the billionaire money manager—and registered sex offender—is importing his playmates from Russia.” The article suggested Listerman had been seen visiting Epstein’s apartment and noted a TV interview in which Listerman said he introduced many oligarchs to Russian models, but insisted: “I’m not a pimp, just [a] matchmaker.”Now Epstein is held in a federal lockup in Manhattan, facing up to 45 years in prison for molesting and trafficking minors. And Listerman appeared to be running scared as soon as we started asking questions.Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of MinorsEarlier this month, celebrities arrived here from all over the world for the 10th annual Odesa International Film Festival. Young Ukrainian models took part in the Fashion Weekend events, with photo shoots on the beach. And sure enough, Listerman showed up as well. We found him drinking in the company of some young women by the pool at the Palace Del Mar hotel. (He was easy to track: he kept posting bawdy videos of himself at the Del Mar or the Dacha restaurant talking about... sex.) When asked about his dealings with Epstein, Listerman tried to turn his activities into a joke:  “I invented myths and fairy tales to entertain people,” Listerman told The Daily Beast. But when pressed to explain the details about the alleged traffic of teen models, he declined to answer and subsequently blocked a reporter on his Instagram and Facebook pages.   What’s certain is that Listerman’s pursuit of potential “matchmaking” talent is notorious, and for decades the activities of Listerman, a Russian citizen, were an open book. He often bragged about his business on Russian TV, referring to the women he hooked up with rich men as “chickens” or “tyolki,” which means heifers, young cows that have never been bred. He also called women his “shaggy gold,” alluding to pubic hair.Here is how he described the type he is searching for in an interview with a Russian tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda, during his visit to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in 2009: “My Hollywood clients and oligarchs are sick of emancipated Muscovites, European and American women, who resemble robots. Everybody is sick of these evil women, they want gentle and romantic!”Russian and Ukrainian organizers of beauty contests try to distance themselves from Listerman as if from a contagious infection. Earlier this year Listerman was noticed outside the luxurious Borvikha concert hall in Moscow right before the Miss Russia 2019 beauty contest. “The scandalous matchmaker was not allowed even to cross the threshold,” Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.In the early 2000s, Moscow’s glamorous world of wild oil money embraced the cynical philosophy of “Uncle Petia,” as Listerman is sometimes called: “God created 50 percent of people who are ready to sell their guts and 50 percent of those who just pretend they cannot but secretly they are ready for anything,” he said in one of his interviews. In a 2007 movie, Gloss, by Andrei Konchalovsky, a procurer seemingly modeled on Listerman is named Petia. He checks if young women’s feet are gentle and agile enough before sending them off for consideration as mistresses for “a very serious client in Sardinia.” One of the models Petia sells to an English lord is a virgin.* * *The Beauty Queen Machine* * *For years, Tatiana Savchenko, the founder of Odessa’s first modeling school, has seen the real-life Listerman cruising for her students at fashion shows and beauty contests. “I have heard him approach women at our agency with his usual, ‘Hey, beautiful, I have a client for you!’” Savchenko told The Daily Beast. “It took a lot of work to keep him from tricking our teen models in his traps.”Goncharova, who was one of Savchenko’s students, actually trained from the time she was five to become a beauty queen. She attended ballet, singing, painting and chess classes; she learned to speak French and English, to move gracefully, and answer questions about her ambitions. In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Goncharova said that “the world’s famous seller of young models to oligarchs”—Listerman—had been writing “What’s up, Bride-to-Be?” messages to her for years. The young model won the Miss Teen Ukraine contest in 2010 and her dream came true: she was invited to take part in Miss Teen World in Houston. That was when she received the first, “Hey, Beautiful,” message from Listerman, who wanted to meet with her. She was 14 years old. Goncharova, a tall, long-limbed Ukrainian model with big doe eyes is gentle, romantic—and horrified to hear about Epstein’s case with such details as the “orgy island” and the alleged connection to Listerman. “I had enough of a brain to turn him down when I was a minor but many girls look for a chance to meet with him, say yes to his offers, as he is paying them much more than €300 [$334], the average of what we make per day working as professional models in Europe,” she said. And Listerman is relentless. In 2016, he sent her private messages on Facebook every few months. “Hi, Mama, how is Odessa?”; “Is Leonardo DiCaprio with you now?” and then four months later: “Hi, Bride-to-Be, have you been successful?” He knew that as a beauty queen she was. In 2017 Goncharova won Miss Tourism International, a contest of models from 20 countries. But clearly Listerman had another notion of success—hooking up with someone very rich.Today, Goncharova says, she realizes that she has been surrounded with girls obsessed with dreams of American wealth and luxury since her childhood. The daughter of a model, when she came to Savchenko’s school, Savrox Models, at the age of five her first teacher was none other than Oleksandra Nikolayenko, who won Miss Ukraine in 2001.Later that same Nikolayenko met Donald Trump’s friend, casino and hotel owner Phil Ruffin. “Ukrainian models and American billionaires found their way to each other at beauty contests,” Savchenko, who had met Trump and Ruffin at several international competitions, told The Daily Beast. “Not everybody needed Listerman’s services.”Made Desperate by War, Odessa's Women Look to Model's Cinderella StorySavchenko went to the Nikolayenko-Ruffin wedding at Mar-a-Lago and remembers vividly her encounter with the future U.S. president: “Donald grabbed me by my waist and whispered compliments that made me blush.”Teenagers from poor Ukrainian regions, where five years of war and economic crises have wrought widespread devastation, imagine themselves escaping to a modeling career, maybe marrying a political leader, a rich businessman, or a foreign sugar daddy.On a recent scouting trip in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the managing organizer of Miss Ukraine Universe, Aleksey Diveyev-Tserkovny, announced the organizers could turn any woman into a model. “When 2,000 beauties showed up, we decided to just let them quickly go past us so we could pull the most beautiful ones from the crowd,” Diveyev-Tserkovny said last week. “But there were so many beautiful girls that my head was spinning.” When asked about Listerman and Epstein, Diveyev-Tserkovny shook his head in disapproval. “To speak to me about Listerman’s hunt for girls is the same as to speak about porn films to an expert in art-house film festivals,” he said. “Listerman has been chasing me, trying to make friends for a long time, since the beauty contest we organize is No. 1 in Ukraine.” * * *The Instagram Pageant* * *Awareness of the role procurers play in Russia and Ukraine is slowly on the rise. Some young women have spoken out about sexual abuse and suffering.  But others are posting their nude and semi-nude pictures on Instagram. “I am not sure how to stop girls flocking into escort agencies—just search for love in Odessa or in Ukraine and you will see tons of young women revealing their bodies,” said Savchenko. “The number of girls interested in beauty contests is shrinking, replaced by an Instagram race for popularity.” Modeling schools organizing beauty contests check every participant’s page on social media. “We play the role of a filter: if some girl posts her nude pictures on Instagram we immediately reject her,” Savchenko added.Boris Nemtsov, the opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin assassinated in 2015, wrote about Listerman in his book Confession of a Rebel. Soon after Putin’s first election in 2000, Nemtsov, a Russian parliament member at the time, stayed in the same hotel as Putin and businessman Vladimir Potanin in the French ski resort of Courchevel. “We come downstairs and see around 10 long-legged girls. Potanin and I were in shock. It turns out Petia Listerman, a famous ‘promoter’ brought them.”  Nemtsov asked Listerman why he brought the women to the hotel: “But you are also men, after all,” Listerman said, assuming that explained everything.The “promoter” has bragged in multiple interviews about finding Russian model wives for big name stars, claiming soccer champion Cristiano Ronaldo and NHL star Alex Ovechkin met their spouses through him. He claimed he had a contract with Tatiana Akhmadova for half of all her divorce proceedings after introducing her to billionaire Farkhad Akhmadov. None of those claims have been substantiated in any detail.In any case, there’s more—or less—than matrimony on offer for a prospective "bride-to-be."“Listerman’s business is surely not just about marriage—we are aware that there is an international market of models supplied to escorts around casinos, yachts and resorts,” Savchenko told The Daily Beast. It’s doubtful that any of the Russians or Ukrainians that Page Six noticed around Epstein were there to be life partners.The problem of human trafficking from and through Ukraine is huge, and not limited to would-be models. According to the International Organization for Migration, 230,000 Ukrainian women, men and children have become victims since 1991. But Goncharova, for one, thinks that Ukraine’s new first lady Olena Zelenskaya could do great service leading the anti-sex-traffic campaign and increasing awareness among young people. As for Goncharova herself, after a lifetime of modeling, at 24 she is disillusioned and says she is planning to quit the business.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Photo Illustation by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty; AlamyODESSA, Ukraine—Disgust flashed across Kristina Goncharova’s delicate features when she heard the name Peter Listerman. In Odessa, Ukraine’s graceful Black Sea resort, every local fashion agency and beauty contest organizer knows Listerman, a man always looking to hire Russian and Ukrainian models for his VIP escort agencies. And to 24-year-old Goncharova, Listerman’s name brings a whole storm of associations with dubious big-money characters treating teenage girls as if they were animals at a pet store. Even back in 2016, sources familiar with the beauty business were not surprised to see a report on the New York Post’s gossipy Page Six site connecting Listerman to Jeffrey Epstein: “Instead of having his assistants troll local high schools, the billionaire money manager—and registered sex offender—is importing his playmates from Russia.” The article suggested Listerman had been seen visiting Epstein’s apartment and noted a TV interview in which Listerman said he introduced many oligarchs to Russian models, but insisted: “I’m not a pimp, just [a] matchmaker.”Now Epstein is held in a federal lockup in Manhattan, facing up to 45 years in prison for molesting and trafficking minors. And Listerman appeared to be running scared as soon as we started asking questions.Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of MinorsEarlier this month, celebrities arrived here from all over the world for the 10th annual Odesa International Film Festival. Young Ukrainian models took part in the Fashion Weekend events, with photo shoots on the beach. And sure enough, Listerman showed up as well. We found him drinking in the company of some young women by the pool at the Palace Del Mar hotel. (He was easy to track: he kept posting bawdy videos of himself at the Del Mar or the Dacha restaurant talking about... sex.) When asked about his dealings with Epstein, Listerman tried to turn his activities into a joke:  “I invented myths and fairy tales to entertain people,” Listerman told The Daily Beast. But when pressed to explain the details about the alleged traffic of teen models, he declined to answer and subsequently blocked a reporter on his Instagram and Facebook pages.   What’s certain is that Listerman’s pursuit of potential “matchmaking” talent is notorious, and for decades the activities of Listerman, a Russian citizen, were an open book. He often bragged about his business on Russian TV, referring to the women he hooked up with rich men as “chickens” or “tyolki,” which means heifers, young cows that have never been bred. He also called women his “shaggy gold,” alluding to pubic hair.Here is how he described the type he is searching for in an interview with a Russian tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda, during his visit to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in 2009: “My Hollywood clients and oligarchs are sick of emancipated Muscovites, European and American women, who resemble robots. Everybody is sick of these evil women, they want gentle and romantic!”Russian and Ukrainian organizers of beauty contests try to distance themselves from Listerman as if from a contagious infection. Earlier this year Listerman was noticed outside the luxurious Borvikha concert hall in Moscow right before the Miss Russia 2019 beauty contest. “The scandalous matchmaker was not allowed even to cross the threshold,” Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.In the early 2000s, Moscow’s glamorous world of wild oil money embraced the cynical philosophy of “Uncle Petia,” as Listerman is sometimes called: “God created 50 percent of people who are ready to sell their guts and 50 percent of those who just pretend they cannot but secretly they are ready for anything,” he said in one of his interviews. In a 2007 movie, Gloss, by Andrei Konchalovsky, a procurer seemingly modeled on Listerman is named Petia. He checks if young women’s feet are gentle and agile enough before sending them off for consideration as mistresses for “a very serious client in Sardinia.” One of the models Petia sells to an English lord is a virgin.* * *The Beauty Queen Machine* * *For years, Tatiana Savchenko, the founder of Odessa’s first modeling school, has seen the real-life Listerman cruising for her students at fashion shows and beauty contests. “I have heard him approach women at our agency with his usual, ‘Hey, beautiful, I have a client for you!’” Savchenko told The Daily Beast. “It took a lot of work to keep him from tricking our teen models in his traps.”Goncharova, who was one of Savchenko’s students, actually trained from the time she was five to become a beauty queen. She attended ballet, singing, painting and chess classes; she learned to speak French and English, to move gracefully, and answer questions about her ambitions. In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Goncharova said that “the world’s famous seller of young models to oligarchs”—Listerman—had been writing “What’s up, Bride-to-Be?” messages to her for years. The young model won the Miss Teen Ukraine contest in 2010 and her dream came true: she was invited to take part in Miss Teen World in Houston. That was when she received the first, “Hey, Beautiful,” message from Listerman, who wanted to meet with her. She was 14 years old. Goncharova, a tall, long-limbed Ukrainian model with big doe eyes is gentle, romantic—and horrified to hear about Epstein’s case with such details as the “orgy island” and the alleged connection to Listerman. “I had enough of a brain to turn him down when I was a minor but many girls look for a chance to meet with him, say yes to his offers, as he is paying them much more than €300 [$334], the average of what we make per day working as professional models in Europe,” she said. And Listerman is relentless. In 2016, he sent her private messages on Facebook every few months. “Hi, Mama, how is Odessa?”; “Is Leonardo DiCaprio with you now?” and then four months later: “Hi, Bride-to-Be, have you been successful?” He knew that as a beauty queen she was. In 2017 Goncharova won Miss Tourism International, a contest of models from 20 countries. But clearly Listerman had another notion of success—hooking up with someone very rich.Today, Goncharova says, she realizes that she has been surrounded with girls obsessed with dreams of American wealth and luxury since her childhood. The daughter of a model, when she came to Savchenko’s school, Savrox Models, at the age of five her first teacher was none other than Oleksandra Nikolayenko, who won Miss Ukraine in 2001.Later that same Nikolayenko met Donald Trump’s friend, casino and hotel owner Phil Ruffin. “Ukrainian models and American billionaires found their way to each other at beauty contests,” Savchenko, who had met Trump and Ruffin at several international competitions, told The Daily Beast. “Not everybody needed Listerman’s services.”Made Desperate by War, Odessa's Women Look to Model's Cinderella StorySavchenko went to the Nikolayenko-Ruffin wedding at Mar-a-Lago and remembers vividly her encounter with the future U.S. president: “Donald grabbed me by my waist and whispered compliments that made me blush.”Teenagers from poor Ukrainian regions, where five years of war and economic crises have wrought widespread devastation, imagine themselves escaping to a modeling career, maybe marrying a political leader, a rich businessman, or a foreign sugar daddy.On a recent scouting trip in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the managing organizer of Miss Ukraine Universe, Aleksey Diveyev-Tserkovny, announced the organizers could turn any woman into a model. “When 2,000 beauties showed up, we decided to just let them quickly go past us so we could pull the most beautiful ones from the crowd,” Diveyev-Tserkovny said last week. “But there were so many beautiful girls that my head was spinning.” When asked about Listerman and Epstein, Diveyev-Tserkovny shook his head in disapproval. “To speak to me about Listerman’s hunt for girls is the same as to speak about porn films to an expert in art-house film festivals,” he said. “Listerman has been chasing me, trying to make friends for a long time, since the beauty contest we organize is No. 1 in Ukraine.” * * *The Instagram Pageant* * *Awareness of the role procurers play in Russia and Ukraine is slowly on the rise. Some young women have spoken out about sexual abuse and suffering.  But others are posting their nude and semi-nude pictures on Instagram. “I am not sure how to stop girls flocking into escort agencies—just search for love in Odessa or in Ukraine and you will see tons of young women revealing their bodies,” said Savchenko. “The number of girls interested in beauty contests is shrinking, replaced by an Instagram race for popularity.” Modeling schools organizing beauty contests check every participant’s page on social media. “We play the role of a filter: if some girl posts her nude pictures on Instagram we immediately reject her,” Savchenko added.Boris Nemtsov, the opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin assassinated in 2015, wrote about Listerman in his book Confession of a Rebel. Soon after Putin’s first election in 2000, Nemtsov, a Russian parliament member at the time, stayed in the same hotel as Putin and businessman Vladimir Potanin in the French ski resort of Courchevel. “We come downstairs and see around 10 long-legged girls. Potanin and I were in shock. It turns out Petia Listerman, a famous ‘promoter’ brought them.”  Nemtsov asked Listerman why he brought the women to the hotel: “But you are also men, after all,” Listerman said, assuming that explained everything.The “promoter” has bragged in multiple interviews about finding Russian model wives for big name stars, claiming soccer champion Cristiano Ronaldo and NHL star Alex Ovechkin met their spouses through him. He claimed he had a contract with Tatiana Akhmadova for half of all her divorce proceedings after introducing her to billionaire Farkhad Akhmadov. None of those claims have been substantiated in any detail.In any case, there’s more—or less—than matrimony on offer for a prospective "bride-to-be."“Listerman’s business is surely not just about marriage—we are aware that there is an international market of models supplied to escorts around casinos, yachts and resorts,” Savchenko told The Daily Beast. It’s doubtful that any of the Russians or Ukrainians that Page Six noticed around Epstein were there to be life partners.The problem of human trafficking from and through Ukraine is huge, and not limited to would-be models. According to the International Organization for Migration, 230,000 Ukrainian women, men and children have become victims since 1991. But Goncharova, for one, thinks that Ukraine’s new first lady Olena Zelenskaya could do great service leading the anti-sex-traffic campaign and increasing awareness among young people. As for Goncharova herself, after a lifetime of modeling, at 24 she is disillusioned and says she is planning to quit the business.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Are you looking for a science fiction novel to read on your Kindle? Cyberside is free today on Amazon.

Cyberside by Aleksey Savchenko, Bert Jennings

Classic Cyberpunk with some refreshing twists

Set in a dystopian future, humanity has escaped the decaying physical landscape of Earth by transferring its collective conciseness into the digital world known as the Cyberside. Though designed to be a…

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