I recently concluded four essays about my observations while on vacation to Thailand.
One of the Thai cities I visited was Pattaya. This city is interesting because it is the flagship city for Russian tourists coming to Thailand.
CIS citizens , primarily Russians like to come to Thailand because they can arrive visa free from their home countries. Thai Airways offers reasonably priced flights from Moscow to Bangkok. The flight time is about 12 hours.
Pattaya is primarily geared towards English speaking tourists, however there are about 10-15% of the business that cater to Russian tourists.
There is even a "Russian District" at the end of Walking Street. Walking Street is long and commercialized nightclub and restaurant and souveneer district that borders the beach.
The Russians that are in Pattaya are all in their mid 20's to mid 40's.
Russian women do not come to Thailand on vacation without their husbands or boyfriends.
There is a very small population of Eastern European prostitutes living in Pattaya.
It is extremely unlikely that 2 Russian women would be murdered on a Thai beach by Thai citizens.
It is unlikely that these 2 Russian women were victims of simultaneous domestic violence ending in their joint deaths on the beach.
It is more likely that these two women were killed because they were either trying to flea their lives as prostitutes, or perhaps they were somehow stealing money from their employers/captors.
The Russian tourists this writer observed did not appear very sociable or happy, or in love, but they did not look to be on the verge of murder either.
Multiple crime families from multiple ethnic backrounds have financial interests in Pattaya businesses.
It is not unreasonable to assume that these two Russian women were murdered because of some association with organized crime in the Pattaya area.
It is this writers hope that the Russian FSB will look into the health and welfare of its citizens living abroad and will work with the Thai authorities to bring some measure of appropriate closure to this sad case in Pattaya.
Michael Miller
Indianapolis,
2007
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I, too, find it very unlikely that two Russian girls who were only unwitting tourists were somehow removed from their dour Russian boyfriends/husbands and murdered by Thai citizens.
I saw not one Russian girl without a punk ass Russian dude lurking somewhere in close proximity whilst I was in Pattaya. I suspect that it is much more likely that they were killed by members of thier own wonderful Russian Mafia.
I would be interested in a link to the article so that a more comprehensive assessment of the happening could be made, however.
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