The concept of mail order brides has been around far longer than has the Internet, but the Net has become the preferred venue for finding a foreign mate. Although most Russian bride websites downplay the ‘mail order’ aspect of their service, the only difference between these websites and the mail order bride catalog of the 1970′s is that former was distributed in hard copy and the latter arrives via cyberspace.

There is no denying that love has been known to spark in strange circumstances, but one has to wonder if its’ love, or some other motive that causes men and women to enter into a ‘mail order bride’ relationship. Go to any Russian brides website (and there are hundreds of them, some legitimate, some not), and you will notice several commonalities. Each site states that, “Russian women are extremely open-minded, and tolerant of most anything”, and every woman pictured on each website could easily be a beauty contest winner. These certainly are attractive selling points.

Oops, we aren’t supposed to talk about selling! It is stressed that Russian woman are not selling themselves through these services, but are merely looking to find the man of their dreams so they can please him in every way possible. These Russian beauties don’t mind living on a tight budget, will work if hubby wants, or will happily stay home and care for home and family, free of selfish career goals.

These women all appear to be highly educated, yet they are not opposed to marrying a man much older and less attractive than they themselves. Russian women are represented as being accustomed to male domination and sexism, so they will not be bothered by those attitudes from their foreign husbands. They are touted to be extremely tolerant with an emotional temperature well below that of their western counterparts. Long-suffering and patient, Russian woman never lose their cool, even if their spouse has many mistresses!

So why do these miraculous, low maintenance creatures need a foreign husband? Unfortunately the women out-number the men in Russia (100 women for every 88 men), and single women are treated with only minimal respect in the Russian culture. If you are not married by age 25, it is unlikely that you will ever marry. Rather than to be doomed to a life of disrespect and despair it is preferable to fly off with a stranger in hopes of finding marital bliss abroad.

Do we really have to ask why Western men might like to marry a woman who has limited English skills and comes advertised as a Barbie Doll who cooks and cleans? Ah, if only it were real!

The fact is, often times it isn’t real. The ‘free’ listing on a Russian bride website may come with a myriad of hidden costs that present themselves later down the road. Some Russian brides are rumored to be fronts for the Russian Mafia. Other Russian bride websites have no brides at all. Men think they are corresponding with the lovely Anna in St. Petersburg, when indeed they are sending handsome pictures of themselves to Ralph in Cleveland and being scammed out of airfare.

Russian women are advertised as ‘trim’ when a more accurate descriptor might be ‘starved’. Health problems linked with poor nutrition and generational alcoholism is never mentioned. Abuse, abandonment, and poverty apparently have no detrimental impact on these women, and they always arrive in the USA unimpaired mentally and physically despite any deprivation or torment they may have suffered as children and young adults. Pretty unbelievable, huh?

Yes, the entire concept upon which ‘Russian brides’ is built is unbelievable. Talk with any Russian male and ask why Russian women want to come to the US and marry American men. Most will agree that it is because Russian women want to live like American women, not because they are just dying to hook up with an overweight middle-aged American man. This means that once settled in America, beautiful Swetlana may decide she wants to pursue a career, delay child rearing, and take long vacations in the sun.

Darn, there is just no truth in advertising anymore.

1. Russia is more economically advanced than a lot of the third world countries where women seek overseas husbands. Many Russian women are already educated and successful, and thus they may not be seeking to immigrate for financial reasons. Thus, the thinking goes, their motivations are pure and they’re not so likely to leave you alone, confused and crying in the airport.

2. Word has it that men who seek mail order brides find Russian women more feminine than Western women. To hear them tell it, Russian women are more attractive than Western women. How much of this perception is real and how much of it is superficial “exotic appeal” remains to be seen is unclear at this point.

3. Most men who seek overseas brides are middle-aged or older, and young Russian women tend to be more open minded about marrying an older man compared to Western women. They tend to believe that older men treat their women better than young men do. For better or for worse, most men prefer beautiful women, and most men find younger women more beautiful. A middle-aged man can easily find a young and beautiful Russian woman much easier than in his home country.

4.Language: The United States and western Europe  is the most desired destination for most Russian mail order brides, and English language skills are spreading rapidly throughout Russia. DO remember, too, that mail order brides are probably more motivated than most to learn English, thus removing one of the greatest barriers to international matchmaking. Of course, complete fluency might be too much to expect, but once she gets to the US she will have the chance to practice daily. Who knows she might end up speaking English far more fluently than you’d like her to.

And let’s not forget, there is a certain type of American man who, for perhaps dubious motivations, would actually prefer a wife who can’t talk…

A good site to start  your search for a Russian bride could be www.email2femail.com.

Hi there to any guys who have decided to jump onto the Russian bride’s bandwagon and are searching for a Russian bride, or Russian dating.

This article is about myself and some of the times and fun I had over 4 years whilst searching for my Russian bride  It was by pure chance that I got into the Russian Brides  dating thing, My friend had joined an English dating site, and one evening  whilst we were searching which was  very depressing given there are so few nice beautiful ladies on any dating sites here  but by chance there was a couple of Russian girls, very very beautiful I must say, and for me this was the first time I had ever thought about a Russian women let alone chatted to one but to cut a long and funny story short, I was on a plane two weeks later to Moldova! Moldova!!!!  Where the heck is Moldova I thought!! I had never been to Eastern Europe in my life it was going to be an adventure, and was more of an adventure when I changed planes in Hungry for the “Air Moldova” plane, Was I going to make this flight alive?? We landed several hours later in Chisinau Airport that was an experience, I didn’t think the let cattle graze on the runway, well maybe they did things different here, of course some of my friends were saying it was not safe, mafia ect ect, but what the heck it sounded fun to me, and I was meeting a beautiful girl, what did I have to loose this was all new to meJ.

I finally departed the aeroplane and went to arrivals standing there waiting for me was Natasha a beautiful Moldovan girl, well it was a good start, I can tell you now I have made two trips to meet girls at later stages and they did not show up at the airport and in fact did not meet me or contact me, but that is another story I will tell about another day. I was there for four days and already it was a bit of an eye opener, I was having a good time with this girl she was friendly spoke very good English,  she had found me a reasonable apartment, Over the four days  I learnt a lot about Eastern Europe, and it was nice to go out for a meal for two and a bottle of Moldovan wine for less than $20.00 On my departure I made plans with Natasha to come to England to visit, which she seemed very eager to do, however after my return to England and spending time preparing a visa and purchasing a air ticket    it turned out the girl I went to meet was not who she said she was, well this was my first experience of not being scammed but finding out ,all is not as it seems in Eastern Europe,  I won’t bore you with the details but seems the girl had taken some money from a Canadian guy, who thought he was sending to her to fix her computer $3000!!! Expensive computer! and was about to do a runner, she left for France a week after I left with a French guy lucky I’m open minded I tracked her down out of curiosity, but just put the whole trip down to an experience, I should of learnt from this, never to rush to meet someone until you have spent at least two months communicating and you can build up some idea of who you are meeting, unfortunately on my later travels and meetings I did not learn by my mistake.

Whilst back in  England my mind was full of Ideas and plans I had decided that I wanted to find a beautiful Russian bride,  I had  soon  signed up to a Russian dating site, this was greatJ) I was corresponding with a beautiful girl from Kiev in Ukraine within a few weeks( here we go again!) I was planning to meet her; within a month I was on another plane to kiev to meet Natalia. I could not believe my luck when we met at arrivals there she was, very very beautiful, with long blonde hair, It was February and so cold!! -15 , Natalia had found two apartments one for herself and one for me,  So I paid her for the two apartments, of course, she was staying with a friend so I guess she kept the money for her apartment , but this was just one more trick I learnt on my travels,(never let a girl find your accommodation)She was nice enough , we went out to some tourist sites and during the evenings went out for meals but it was on my mind  how such a poor girl knew all the best places to eat and drink,   even so I even invited her to England,( why did I do that??  I only just met her!) I’m not going to bore you with my story of when she came to visit me in England , all I will say is I was glad to see the back of her!! And it was only when she was in England that I learnt she had visited .England on four other occasions as well as travelling to the Caribbean several times  I did wonder why she wanted to go to the travel agents and pick up some brochures, that was a lucky escape for me!

So it was back to square one.

Now anybody reading this article may now be worried as to is, it worth the trouble to try and find an honest good Russian bride, and my answer to that would be yes! I did in the end and you can too by just following your instincts, I made some mistakes, but in general they were my own doing, at the same time I had a great time and can say I was never really scammed or robbed of money.

Over the next few years I travelled Eastern Europe extensively, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova meeting many interesting ladies, making some great long term friendships, I had some great fun and great time and along the way and I guess you could say for the first few years it was like a addiction travelling to meet so many beautiful girls. Along the way I learnt a lot about Russian life, Russian culture and in particular Russian women and their mentality .Now Russian women’s mentality, that’s another subject I will write about another day. I also fell in love with Russia as a country, its culture and its people. I’m not saying all girls you meet are just after gifts, money, travel and holidays but there are many who just seek that, but then there are many girls like that on dating sites here so It is nothing new. My best advice to anyone planning to meet a Russian bride is to take it slowly and be sure you get to know her a little first, and remember she is probably communicating with several other guys at the same time.

I finally met my love in St Petersburg and decided to live and set up my own Russian dating site  www.email2femail.com to give other guys a chance to meet genuine Russian ladies looking for love, romance and marriage.

 I spent five  years on many of the usual sites, many of which just send you scam of some sort or another or the usual pile of e mails saying “ letter from Olga” with the usual , “you have to join to read it” So I’m trying to offer a honest service that doesn’t cost the earth to join the site offers a very personal touch for anyone planning to travel to Russia advice on travel, visas, accommodation, any worries you may have, infact any thing to do with meeting your Russian bride, all advice is free just drop us an e mail or feel free to call me on my Russian number.

Any comments on the site would be very much appreciated, and I wish you good luck in your searches.

If you are thinking of meeting a Russian woman over the Internet – you HAVE to be aware of these most popular scams online:

Here are the most popular cities considered to be the scam capitals of their countries:

Lugansk ? the scam capital of Ukraine ? 90% of the ladies are scamming foreign men for money, presents, etc; read on to see the most popular scams. Yoshkar-Ola ? the scam capital of Russia Kazan ? the scam capital of Russia Minsk – the scam capital of Belarus

In this article will be explained the most popular scams that Russian women go through and the saddest real stories that I witnesses when American men lost their head and a lot of money when chasing their dream.

I came to Lugansk with a purpose to open another matchmaking office there. I think manies have heard about the tremendous beauty of hot and sensual Ukrainian girls but only a smaller number of them do really know that exactly in this small Ukrainian town with a poetic name Lugansk every girl is a real supermodel. Frankly speaking, I didn’t have any version about why is it so, until the time when I introduced with one interesting and of course beautiful woman, who told me that in the time of the Russian Impress Katherine the second’s ruling, she dispatched all the beautiful girls to that remote area. She eliminated all that women of tremendous beauty in unknown city of Lugansk, in order their charm could not darken the beauty of the powerful Empress. In such a way, this small city was full of girls of unbelievable beauty and they were passing this real value from generation to generation. Probably it’s just a beautiful legend, but you start unwillingly believing it when you walk in the streets of Lugansk and stare at dazzling smiles of Russian Brides of Lugansk beauties .

In one of the hot days, I set down on a bench in the shadow in a cozy and pretty park and lazily was looking at people who were resting there. Through some time my attention was attracted by a group of four chaps – two guys and two girls. One of the women among them was tremendously beautiful! A guy that was sticking with her was pretty much athletic but he was staring at another man in a very unfriendly way. At the mean time, the guy that was gazed by another man admirably looked at that extremely beautiful girl. The second ***** as I understood was a translator, because guy that was charmed most all spoke in English. The interpreter seemed nervous and unconfident. The beauty was only answering “yes” or “no” and the conversation of two seemed more like a monolog of a foreigner. In some 15-20 minutes the stranger took out of his wallet and passed few green banknotes to the translator. Then, girls and the athletic guy left a foreigner alone and gone in a car that was waiting for them.

As I later found out, the foreigner was an American. His name was Steve. He seemed really confused. That’s why I decided to approach him and ask if he needs any help. So, we introduced and from that moment I started getting to know a different side of Lugansk. It was another truth – a shocking truth about this city.

He came from USA to meet his virtual woman of dream and gain his long-awaited happiness. His whole family was expecting him home with his beautiful, loving and caring Ukrainian bride. However his fiancee disappeared from his life unexpectedly, just like she entered it. The same thing happened to his friend who came with him to Lugansk for seeing his bride.

So, what was so horrible and what happened to both of them?

I told this guy’s story to the manager of my newly registered Lugansk branch of “oksanalove” Russian bride dating agency. And I was even more surprised and confused when she told me not a legend and not a history, but a real thing. I won’t tell about all the details. I just going tell you about some facts that I found out there. So, Lugansk and other scam cities have several illegal fake agencies that work behind the closed doors. They don’t give any of their contact details; they do not provide clients with any trustworthy information, they don’t have advertisements. The pictures of their beautiful clients they put in different free internet sites like Absolute agency, etc. Many of their clients are married young women. They are not unfaithful to their husbands and do not look for a partner for creating a family. So, why do they address to the dating agency? The answer is simple and horrifying – is the money. This is it! The work of these beauties is also simple and does not really bother them. They just bring their photos to the agency and that’s all. The rest is the task for their agency. They decide on what web-site to put the newly came girl’s picture, they write letters to her trapped man and so on. Of course man has to pay for all those letters, where “his” woman get’s percentage for his spending. As a rule they receive lots of letters from the foreign clients and the fiance (if I can say so) on the wings of love fly to these cities to see their beloved ones. Finally, the couples have a meeting and… Confused fiance get a cold look of their Lugansk beauty instead of a sweet kiss.

They loyally pay money for personal translator service, driver, apartment found by their baby-girls and stay alone with their dreams. At the meantime, their brides honestly get their “share” for every deal from their translator who works for the agency. Usually, the fake bride gets some percent from the whole sum given by her fiance. And actually, her salary depends on how much generous her fiance is. Some men spent 10K, others 15K, most generous one (I heard) spent 35 ? 45 Thousands!

Well, this is a sad story about Beautiful Russian Brides from Lugansk and their fake dating agencies. I take all the responsibility for the reliability of this information and it’s checked by myself. In two similar agencies that I attended as a fake client I got the whole information about how the agencies of such kind operate and how their brides should work in their team. I told them that I’m married hiding the facts that could make them suspicious and disclose my intensions. As I told before, I will not describe all the details. However, it made me even the more striving for realizing my purpose.

Here are proximate % that ladies receive from their man’s spending: Letters ? 40% Gifts ? 20 ? 30% Phone calls, translation services ? 30% Persona driver and interpreter when man arrives ? 50% Apartment / hotel rent ? 20%

When searching for a foreign woman on the Internet, watch closely how she plans a meeting with you: does she want to have her own interpreter? ? Red flag Does she wan her person driver? ? Red flag. Does she want to travel with her own interpreter if meeting takes place in a third country? ? Red flag.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of girls in Lugansk (or other Russian, Ukrainian cities) who want to find her second half, one she could give all her love, passion, tenderness, faithfulness and beauty.

See those specially selected ladies who truly want to find love and happiness with a foreign man Russian bride dating agency.

http://www.oksanalove.com

What makes her so attractive and what are the good topics for conversation with a single Russian girl? Here are a few ideas what to talk about if you want to conquer a Russian heart!

Basically their beauty is inherited. Russians are a fine mixture between Asia and Europe. Their exotic appearance has been seen on the covers of many lifestyle magazines. Their mothers are elegant and their fathers are handsome and these ladies have taken the best from their parents.

Single Russian girls are taught to love wisdom and knowledge. Many of them speak more than two foreign languages fluently, especially those who are under their 30′s. After the changes in the ex-Soviet Union in the early 90′s many of these girls have traveled abroad and even studied in western colleges and universities. Their broad vision and experience makes them unique companions.

Their interests are various, from literature to art. If you learn a little about Russian literature, you will be amazed by the peaks achieved by this culture. Russia has unique authors such as Dostoevsky or Pushkin, both translated into many foreign languages and received their deserved place in the pantheon of the classics.

If you have a little free time, use it to search for one of their works and read it. You will be knocked out by the power of words they manage to combine. Do not be afraid to share your opinion with your girl!

Your date will be highly impressed if you ask her what stories she liked when she was young. Discussing someone’s childhood is always a good way to reach her heart. Of course you should be prepared to conquer her with the name of Eduard Uspensky or other popular Russian author for kids. Uspensky was the author who created the stories for the so called “Cheburashka”, a cute little bear-like animal which maybe you have already seen.

Today Cheburashka is famous in Japan, USA, Israel and other countries but due to copyright controversy it is not possible for the stories to gain the same popularity as for example Roald Dahl’s did.

Your knowledge in Russian literature for sure will amaze your date and you will be half way to her soul. Young people are interested in music and Russia has many talented performers. Starting with Tatu you can move the conversation to Ruki Vverh (both very popular bands in Russia and even abroad).

Surely there are many music styles and tastes, so be curious what your girl likes. Ask her to send you some tracks or to tell you from where you can download them. Apart of maintaining the conversation this will allow you to keep in touch with her after your first date is over.

Family plays a highly important part in the life of every single woman. These ladies respect their parents and do everything possible to not disappoint them. Often they take studies in engineering, chemistry or physics, just to make their fathers happy. If you see a girl looking like a fashion model it will not be strange if she has master’s degree in quantum mechanics if she is Russian.

Single Russian girls means great challenge so be prepared with your first “Privet, kak tebya zovut?”.

Privet, kak tebya zovut? = Hello, what is your name?

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You will find quite a number of Russian women who take keener interest in dating the foreign men than the local guys. There are quite a number of reasons behind this. Some of them hunt for the foreign men in the online dating websites which are considered to be a great place to interact with men from all parts of the world.

They can check out the profiles of the people from all over the globe and choose the right one who they feel will do perfect not only as a date but also as a life partner. Most of the Russian women are more interested in taking the dating relationships towards marriage instead of being involved in short term relations. Here are certain reasons that might have played an important role in building their mindset.

Reasons why the Russian girls like dating foreigners

This is not the fact that you will not find handsome and decent guys in Russia. But the problem is that the Russian girls often consider the foreigners as better choice. They are not really concerned about the age of the person whom they are dating. They are ready to date a man who is older than her but has a lot of money in his pocket.

The older men are often in a stable position and earn well. So they are able to spend a lot of money on their date and buy expensive gifts for her. This is what the Russian girls like about the foreigners. In fact they will give much preference to the emotions and commitments of a man apart from his wealth.

They are often considered to be extremely charming and beautiful to the foreigners and they take keen interest in dating them. They encash this perfectly and often try to get married to these foreigners to relocate to other countries. Most of the Russian women are quite experienced about *** and emotional affairs and finally what they look for is marriage.

Hence most of them aim to get married to the foreigners after dating him for a long time. The socio-economic and political condition of the country has an important role to play in this.

But at the same time this is not easy to impress a Russian woman. If you feel that you will learn to pronounce her name and she will fall for you then this is a very wrong notion. They look for care and attention from their date.

They are extremely sensitive and can judge people with their attitude. But if you are a foreigner and have all the qualities that they look for in a man then the chances are quite high that you will get to date a Russian woman.

Found Treasure

With so many guys jumping on the Russian brides bandwagon and searching overseas for their other half, and so many  stories of guys being scammed for money from either fake girls or fake dating agencies, it’s plesent  to know that finally there may be help at hand for men searching for a REAL Russian Bride. There are thousands of serious minded beautiful Russian brides looking for marriage, love and a partner on the internet, Russian dating is fast becoming very popular but many guys are put off with l the bad press and false idea that there is a stigma attatched to Russian dating. But it is not all true and is only down to a very small minority, and no more worse than you would find on any western dating site there are thousands of genuine honest girls looking for love and romance and using your common sense any nice guy can find a beautiful Russian bride.

To be perfectly frank the main reason many guys are scammed is due to their own stupidity and being very niev, as long as you remember  the golden rule NO good Russian lady would ever dream of asking any guy to send you money, so you  will have no problems meeting your dream Russian bride. So if it is something you have been thinking about and have read about the beauty of Russian women or even seen them on tv maybe now it is time for you to give it a try, and always remember Russian women are the most beautiful in the world, they are intelligent, make wonderful wives ,are loyal, very well dressed you will never see a Russian women not looking herself in fact if you check the statistics marriage to a foreign bride is more likely to outlast  marriage to a local lady.  The stigma attached to this sort of marriage is now a thing of the past., infact you will be the envy of all of your friends to have found such a beautiful wife. You can be assured you will have a hard job to find a wife so beautiful on any local dating sites.

www.email2femail.com is a Russian dating site which has been set up by a English guy who after 4 years of searching ,travelling to Eastern Europe,  heartache and falling for several scams finally found his love in Russia fell in love with mother Russia and moved to the beautiful city of St Petersburg, in the Russian federation.

The web site is unique to most sites on the web and unlike most other Russian Bride sites there are no fees for opening letters or sending letters,all contact is done direct by the members themselves having no need for any third parties, all members have direct access to all the Russian brides in the database, personal email address and phone numbers.

 There are thousands of Beautiful Russian brides on the site for you to contact direct by email, or by telephone. Though it is recommended to write to the ladies first as it would be considered rude to just call her out of the blue being a total stranger. Russia has long had a new economy and has long past the Soviet union days most girls have their own computers and do not need translators. So you have no more need for those unscrupulous dating sites,charging you crazy fees to open a ladies e mail, which in all truth is probably fake.If you search any forums on the Russian dating site the main topic always seems to be how many guys have been scammed out of money by paying to open letters   from non exsistance ladies. With email2femail there are no huge fees to pay just a small monthly subscription charge, the rest is left upto you.

So if you are seruoise about searching for a Russian bride spend a few minutes and check the site over there is no charge to add your profile, and all guys adding their profiles will receive one free gold credit allowing them to contact one lady free of charge from the site. As a member you can ask for free advise on travel, accommodation Russian bride topics or questions ect, should be thinking of travelling to Russia inparticular  Moscow and St Petersburg.  If you are interested in searching for a Russian bride some research into Russian life and culture will go a long way towards helping you. And If you do visit Russia you may be in for a big cultural shock

So contact to the ladies start Russian dating and before you know it you could be on the next plane to Russia you will have the greatest time of your life meet some beautiful ladies in the world, and with a little determination catch yourself a beautiful Russian bride to be the envy of all of your friends. Any feedback for the sight would be very much appreciated please mail  info@email2femail.com

Best of luck in your searches,

There are many errors and oversights that a man can make when trying to court a Russian woman. It is only natural to slip up in the beginning; there are big cultural differences, and it is a foreign situation.

Keep messing up, though, and you will find that you are wasting a lot of both time and money.

These mistakes are in no particular order, and they are all of equal importance.

Top Mistakes That Men Make In Russian Dating: Part Two:

7. Projecting The Attitude That She Jumping At The Chance To Marry You. If you are attentive and kind, she may be interested. If you are rude and arrogant, she will not be. Do not act as if you are better than her. A Russian woman is not desperate. Besides that, why would you be interested in somebody who is only interested in you because she is in the pursuit of a better life, anyway?

8. Thinking That She Will Be Your Trophy Wife. Russian women are not docile creatures. They grew up in different conditions and have had to endure a lot. Many are very independent and strong, and have made a lot of hard decisions in the past. They have dealt with drunkard husbands and boyfriends who refuse to make family life easy, or who do not think twice in finding a mistress. It is almost impossible to control a Russian woman, so do not try.

9. You Are Not Serious. Generally, women will wait 4-6 months for you to decide that you are coming to visit her. If you do not come to the FSU (Former Soviet Union) in a few months after that, she will move on to somebody who she does deem as serious. Generally, 8-10 months is the absolute longest time that a woman will write to you before she gives up. It is important for you to get there because she cannot ever her visa if you do not come, and she needs to make sure that you two are able to click in person as well. Make sure that you are ready emotionally, financially, and physically.

10. There Is A Large Age Gap Between You And Her. Sure, some men have success when there is a 20-year or more age difference. Some men also win the lottery. Granted, Russian women do grow up a lot quicker than their western counterparts, so a 10-15 year age difference may very well work. Anything more than 20 years is pushing it, though. You will likely not have as much in common and the activities that you would want to do would probably be different as well.

11. You Are Not Consistent. If you are not regular and reliable when writing her letters, she will likely want to cut communications with you. If you tell her that you want to visit her, but then have a change of heart, and then re-change your mind, again, she will likely stop talking to you. Many of these women are serious and do not want to waste their time.

12. Your Introduction Letter Does Not Grab Her Attention. There is a lot to be said on this topic, but for now, a quick rundown. Russian women do not want pen pals, first of all, so you need to make sure that you explain your intent. Letters with photos have staggeringly better response rates, so make sure that you include one in your first letter. You can also ask for a response, even if she is not interested. She just may write back. Another good idea is to have your letters translated. Despite how good her English may be, there are huge chances of miscommunications. If you get your letter translated, she will be able to understand the entire thing, would be grateful, and would most likely respond to you.

13. You Do Not See Your Relationship As Being An Equal Partnership. Much like with all women, Russian women want and need to be treated with respect. If you are not willing to view your relationship as a partnership, then you should consider remaining single. To reiterate #7, these women are not desperate, and will not run to marry you just because you are from America.

14. Not Taking This Article Seriously. Russian women are very reserved about their feelings; do not just assume that everything is okay because she is not telling you otherwise.