Human trafficking is a contemporary slavery, a shameful phenomenon for modern civilization that involves many countries as well as organized criminal groups. From European point of view, Russia is important as a country of origin and as a transit country. Asian migrants, women from China, Vietnam, former Soviet republics like Ukraine, Moldova and Central Asian republics are trafficked to Europe through Russia. Russian women and children are trafficked to very wide geographical areas in the world, mostly to Belgium, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, United States, Turkey, Greece, Arab Emirates, Israel, Egypt, China, Korea and Japan. The reasons of trafficking in Russia are relatively transparent state borders between Russia and CIS countries, increase in migration outside and inside Russia, low standards of life in comparison with western countries, existence of the stable channels of “deliveries” in Western countries, internal human trafficking within Russia, criminal business from CIS countries, including use of forced labor, globalization of the organized crime. Traffickers operate in small groups. Russian criminal syndicates like “Solnsevskoye”, “Izmailovskoye”, “Domodedovskoye”, “Podolskoye” are involved in human trafficking as buyers of victims. It is recommended to widen the education of potential victims, tighten control over travel, dating, model and job agencies, improve social conditions of potential victims, strengthen family institution, and increase international cooperation with anti-trafficking bodies of other countries. Two significant tasks should also be done: reduce the demand in destination countries and improve social conditions in Russia.