 We have here some good agencies, who organize well-done meetings with foreign gentlemen's and single Russian ladies. But that bulk method is much worst than usual pickup, even you are under forty. But you should keep in mind, that only few of hundred educated and good-looking women could accept the situation, when they must just seat down and wait, should you choose them or not. This looks like latent prostitution. I saw those chicks, they are from peripheral regions, far from thirty, and - sorry - most of them are narrow-minded and boring: "English-speaking, No-smoking, Rock-n-Roll dancing".
The feminist's must be killing me. Nevertheless… First, in 90% cases our woman represents typical set of ideas, opinions and complexes. Just talk to her, don't let her pay for anything, give small gifts and flowers frequently, and soon you will reach her mind, her body, and her soul. You should keep in your mind that your are a prince, who came from aboard to take her away from this dirty, poor and very-very cold country. In the same time they understand that this is fiction, but your accent when you will say "Izvinite…" sounds like "May be this is my chance…"
About girls from central cities - Moskvkchki (native Muscovites) and Peterburgenki (who are originally from St.Pete) - I must say that most of my friends, who are still in bachelor status, don't like them. Aged 21-26 they are spoilt by their parents, money and attention and may be educated but normally have huge self-conceited mind and "life experience". It means that it's quite difficult avoid general topics and cliches in relationships, what is really boring me. Try to speak whit them, may be you lucky and you'll not hear ten times the same story about "How I was in Turkey (or Egypt) in last month"…
Girls from St.Pete is quite easy going, more then Muscovites. And those, who leave in central cities for 3 - 4 years or more, but born and grown in small peripheral cities are much more reliable and sensitive to attention. But don't expect that she will knows, who Michelangelo was… OK, this second point that is important: is she from central city - Moscow or St.Pete, or she is just coming and live in Moscow or St.Pete several years.
If you'll go to the night club or visit a bit expensive cafe, you'll find there a lot of fashionable girls. It's hard to identify their age. Indefinitely young. Look at her dress, hands and shoes. Our society is highly differenced, but in the public places you could meet women from upper and low class. Fashionable girls and women, who are in pairs... Mostly, they are not working girls. Working girls are waiting for you in saunas. Yes, it's normal just to ask something and then offer to join for this evening.
 If you don't want to waste your time - just leave your ID. [Did you take your cellular phone in Russia?]. As a matter of fact, one from five would like to meet you. I know that even standing in the metro with the map in one hand the results may be incredible, but this is for experienced people…
The forth: yes, we have many of working girls. Sure, it's illegal. A part of them is very expensive: if you visit some clubs with double face-control, you will find their smiled faces easy. So if you are ready to spend ~ $ 300 as minimum for a good evening, it will be memorable evening: most of them are very pretty!
If you are risky men, open magazine or newspaper with free classifieds: massage and sauna for $50 per hour, but this is no warranty that you will get what you want.
Please avoid women who are ready to go with you in a few minutes in a hotel. There are several accidents, when people were poisoned and some had died in hospital after cocktail with alcohol plus some medicine. We call them CLAFELINSHITSY: several shots and the client will never remember where he was, with whom, and where is his money. Take it easy body, but anyway you should read the faces... Look at her hands, dress and STYLE.
Russian laws put the restrictions on sex with people younger than 14 only. But this theme is risky deal, as a cheap prostitutes. So, if your main goal is sex tourism, you probably should choose another destination.
Russian men not Mr Right
for some women
 MOSCOW: Anna, a 35-year-old divorcee and mother of two living in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, spends her days surfing the Internet, looking for the man of her dreams and he is not Russian.
"I have more than a hundred virtual contacts, from Britain, Norway, the United States... the choice is huge," she says. "Some are prepared to come to Russia immediately to get married," adds Anna.
Disillusioned with life in Russia, many women here long to marry foreigners, generating a profitable business, with hundreds of specialised marriage bureaus and Internet services, but some eventually find out their dream is not all it is cracked up to be.
With a reputation for being more attached to family values and less career-oriented than their Western counterparts, Russian women attract many foreign men, psychologists here say.
As a result, the number of mixed marriages, which were exceptional in Soviet times, has exploded since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over the last 10 years, some 75,000 women have left Russia just to marry American men.
In fact, says Olga Makhovskaya, from the Russian Institute of Psychology, "for many, the desire to leave Russia is the only reason they marry foreigners."
Divorce lawyer Roman Stepanov concurs: "Living standards are low in Russia, and many women think that marrying a foreigner is like winning the jackpot, particularly those who live in the regions and have not been successful in their careers," he says.
"They are convinced they will live like queens when they are abroad. However, reality is often a far cry from this, and they often have a hard time adapting to their new lives and coping with cultural differences," Stepanov adds.
As a consequence, divorces are not rare, and some have even made international headlines.
In 2001, Russian actress Natalya Zakharova sued her French ex-husband over the custody of their daughter, a problem that made its way into the agenda of a meeting between Russian President President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac.
The following year a seven-year-old Russian girl, Emilia Garmin, was abducted in Moscow by her US father, who had divorced her Russian mother.
Yet since the collapse of the Soviet Union, marriage bureaus specialising in matching would-be Russian brides and single Western men have mushroomed all over Russia, like Moscow-based Inter-Nuptial, run by 28-year-old Maria Zvedre.
"Our catalogue includes some 700 women, most aged 27 to 46, who dream of marrying a foreigner," says Zvedre. She should know: in search of a Western Mr Right herself, she has included her own name into her company's data base. To have her photos in the catalogue, each woman must pay around 100 dollars
As for foreign men, Inter-Nuptial offers them a 10-day trip to Russia, including 20 dates, for 2,500 dollars.
The desire for a better, wealthier life, is not the only reason why so many Russian women try to marry foreigners. Russia's gender gap, with females exceeding males by 10 million, is another powerful cause.
Another reason is that many women are totally disillusioned with Russian men. In their view, Russian men are "spoiled and infantile". "This is a consequence of the past, particularly of the period following World War II, when (because so many men had been killed) each man was invaluable," Makhovskaya says.
But marrying foreign men is sometimes hardly better, she adds. "Unfortunately, Russian women often marry foreigners that have not been successful in their lives and unable to attract women from their own countries, and who think that Russian women are easier targets and are more docile," she says, adding that marriage bureaus should check the backgrounds of their male, Western clients, more thoroughly.
"We have lapsed into market values. We have forgotten that love and happiness cannot be purchased," Makhovskaya says.
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