Anastasiya Pavlivna Gryshai, professionally known as Wiska, is a

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model and retired pornographic actress of

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origin. A married mother of three, Anastasiya is the first pornographer to take refuge in the EU (namely the

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) and apply for a

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due to their professional activities.

Early life and porn career

Anastasiya was born in Gomel but grew up in the

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n city of Feodosia where she met her husband Oleksandr. In 2003, Oleksandr was convicted and imprisoned for 8 years for a vehicle

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. The couple states that imprisonment was result of a business dispute and the reason for Anastasiya's out-of-need family-supporting porn career. Anastasiya claims her first porn shooting took place in

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in 2004, where she was paid $500 per week, considerable money for Ukraine at that time. Between 2004 and 2008, Anastasiya, nicknamed Wiska, starred in over 40 pornographic films, including at least one movie with

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. Circa 2007, Wiska's identity was revealed in

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after a family interview for one of the local tabloids, which attracted journalistic interest and launched her as a national

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posing for mainstream media.

Persecution

In 2010,

authorities began investigating Anastasiya's family living in Feodosia on the legal grounds of

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(including forensic examination of her children for possible

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) and production and distribution of pornography (illegal in Ukraine since 2009).Украинская порнозвезда Анастасия ГРИШАЙ (WISKA): «Те, кто проверял нашу семью, собирались провести медицинский осмотр моих детей — двухлетнего Оскара и восьмилетнего Саши — на наличие следов полового акта. Ужас! Психологическая травма на всю жизнь!»
The persecution was initiated by

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, then representing the

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. Anastasiya left Crimea with her family and moved to

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where she received support from FEMEN.

Asylum seeking

In December 2012, Anastasiya and her family moved to the

and applied for an asylum. Although their application for asylum was denied in August 2013, they continued to live in the Czech Republic near

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and applied for legal residence, which they received on 2 September 2013.

References

External links

News publications

Всі новини за тегом "Wiska"
– updated newsreel on Wiska on the ''

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'' web site .
Украинская порноактриса Wiska: Мама и жена в стиле "ню". ФОТО
2007 interview by the ''

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''.
Porn Star Wiska Bids for EU Asylum after Ukraine Sleaze Crackdown
by the ''

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''.
Wiska
– annotated non-pornographic photo essay in the '' Focus'' magazine .

Porn industry dossiers

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