A trucker said girls new to the trade were offering oral sex in small countryside towns for a mere 300 roubles — a little more than the cost of a sandwich and a coke.
Adriana has cut her prices by 500 roubles an hour to 2,000 roubles — the same charged by the girls on the highway and the lowest girls in Moscow are willing to go to.
“People who came three times a week suddenly don’t visit at all,” said Adriana, adding that this was the biggest dip in customers she has seen since she started the job a decade ago.
Despite the fall in business, she hopes to stay on the game for another five years before relocating to Bulgaria, where she is eying property.
But with some of Moscow’s wealthiest men still in the market, the elite prostitutes appear to be surviving the crisis unscathed. Under the glowing red lights at one of Moscow’s nightclubs, prostitutes who charge between 300 euros and 500 euros (US$395 and US$658) an hour said it was business as usual.
“We service the whole world from here and absolutely nothing has changed,” said 34-year-old Natalya, waving a thin, tanned arm across a room of businessmen from the Middle East.
Lena, also in her 30s and with a shock of peroxide shoulder-length hair, nodded at her co-worker.
“The men who come to us are very rich, very successful and know what they want. Business is good,” she said, reclining in a plush armchair.
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