Prostitution politics in Russia

It’s hard to know what will appeal to me from night to night. Sometimes I feel like writing about local politics, and sometimes I see a relatively small item that sends me spinning off on a tangent. Tonight, it’s an article about a Russian woman named Ekaterina Gerasimova that has me clicking around the web. It seems as though she’s made a name for herself on Russian television by seducing and then fucking critics of the Kremlin in front of hidden cameras. Here, with more, is a clip from the Huffington Post:

…According to reports, Ekaterina, or ‘Katya,’ as she is known, has seduced half a dozen prominent critics of the Russian government, inflicting huge damage to their reputations when she later releases video footage of their cocaine-fueled trysts.

Viktor Shenderovich, Katya’s latest victim, believes the girl is part of a Kremlin-led plot to discredit its enemies.

Shenderovich, a journalist and the script writer for a satirical Russian TV show, said, “This is not entertainment, the filming was done professionally, federal forces were involved in it. This is being done by the authorities for two purposes: to discredit and to blackmail.”

The married father admitted that the footage of him having intercourse with Katya was accurate…

I worry that it’s just a matter of time before American reality television, perhaps with the support of someone on the right, like Rupert Murdoch, delivers us at the same point… And, come to think of it, I hear that Ashley Dupré is looking for work.