Grishay, better known under her nickname
Wiska, had a rather successful career in the porn business. Born in Gomel in
Belarus, she grew up in the southern Ukrainian city of Feodosia. It was there
that she met her husband Alexander Kondratenko, who suggested that particular
line of work.
She claims her first porn shooting took place in Russia in 2004, where she was paid $500 per week, considerable money for Ukraine at that time.
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In her interviews, she says she had to start
doing adult movies to support her little son Alexander when her husband went to
prison for burning a car, but notes that her husband had proposed such jobs
earlier. Between 2004 and 2008 Grishay, nicknamed Wiska, starred in over 40
films, including at least one movie with Italian adult movie star Rocco
Siffredi.
Porn business in Ukraine generally doesn’t go
public, but Grishay played it differently. At the peak of her career in 2008
she and her husband gave several interviews to Ukrainian media, speaking about
their family and Grishay’s porn career.
Together with popularity, it brought couple
some unwanted attention from Verkhovna Rada deputies. In 2010 a group of
deputies headed by Communist Party member Leonid Grach appealed to the
Prosecutor General claiming that Grishay and her husband were corrupting
society. The deputies were especially worried by the fact that Grishay spoke
openly about her earnings, making porn production look like “normal and,
moreover, profitable business.”
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A criminal investigation started, and the
couple was questioned by police twice before they decided to leave Ukraine to
avoid being arrested. Grishay and Kondratenko escaped to Czech Republic.
Being interviewed by Ukrainian media recently,
Kondratenko claimed that his wife stopped doing porn after giving birth to her
second son, Oscar. Now the couple has three children. Grishay revealed in her
interviews that her main fear is that her children will be taken away from her
if she comes back to Ukraine.
Last week Grishay, now living in Prague with
her children, was officially refused of asylum.
“They (Czech Republic’s foreign ministry) says
that there is no criminal case against us in Ukraine. I think they were just
lied to (by Ukraine’s officials),” Kondratenko told Ukrainian 1+1 TV
station.
Grishay herself told 1+1 by phone that she
doesn’t give interviews to Ukrainian media anymore as she isn’t going to live
in Ukraine.
She did speak to journalists on Dec. 6 during
her topless protest near the building of the Czech Republic’s parliament. She was supported by FEMEN protest group,
although FEMEN activists didn’t undress this time, leaving the spotlight on
Grishay, standing topless, holding her toddler baby. The protest doesn’t seem
to have received much attention.
“I just want my children to live in free
democratic state,” Grishay said.
She also revealed that her next step is to
appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
Kyiv Post staff writer Olga Rudenko can be
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