This extended story from the Buffalo News documents the child pornography link between Russian and the United States. From the story:

Virtually no country is exempt from this ugliness. But two nations — Russia and the United States — shoulder much of the blame, The Buffalo News found in a year-long investigation.

Here in Russia, where possessing child pornography is legal, no child is too far from the pornographer’s clutches....

Russia produces the child pornography, and Web servers in the United States host the disgusting images so anyone — with Americans being the single biggest market — can see them for a price. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all commercial child pornography on the Internet — including images produced in Russia — is transmitted to the world through Web servers owned and operated in the United States, one study found.