They say that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, the truth of which is realized when we see that each of us has different tastes and preferences. Some of us lust after our own kind, and for others, the grass on the other side is greener - another truth that’s verified by the contradictory clichés of opposites attracting and birds of a feather sticking together. Attraction is akin to applause - you need both hands to coordinate if you want any kind of action to take place. So you need to make sure that the woman you’re attracted to is into you as well. And if you’re looking for a woman from Russia, then here’s what you need to remember:

• Russian women are blond and beautiful: If you’re the kind to go gaga over tall, leggy, blonde babes, then Russia’s the place to go. Remember the likes of Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova and all the other Russian belles who set the world’s tennis courts on fire with more than just their shot-making skills? Beautiful women tend to be a little narcissistic, unless they’re completely blind of course. So lay on the flattery, but not so thick that it feels as out of place as a face that’s painted too garishly with cosmetics.
• Russian women are naturally thin: It may have been meant as a joke of some sorts, but there is some truth to the fact - Russian women are not born with silver spoons in their mouths, and this is why they don’t have rich foods to eat and cars to drive around in. This automatically makes them healthy and slim, unlike most of their Western counterparts who have to slog it out at the gym for a svelte figure. So if you like your women with more curves than angles, then you’re looking in the wrong place.
• Russian women like beautiful men: Have you seen the males of this country? They’re drop-dead gorgeous. And this is why Russian women have high standards when it comes to men they choose as their mates, whether in passing or for life. So if you’re made of mirror-cracking material, you’d better count yourself out of the reckoning.
• Russian women are not rich: With the great divide that exists between the rich and the poor in this cold country, you can bet your last dollar that most of the Russian women you meet are not rolling in the rubles. So if you’re well-off, it may count as a point in your favor.
• Russian women are well educated: If you’re the kind who stereotypes blondes, you’re not likely to understand that Russian women place a lot of emphasis on education and that most of them hold college degrees. They expect their men to be educated as well, so make sure you have a degree to boast of on your calling card.

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This post was contributed by Holly McCarthy, who writes on the subject of dating sites. She invites your feedback at hollymccarthy12 at gmail dot com

By the time you can make ends
meet, they move the ends.

It is a very well known fact that Russian women, who are looking to find a husband, are very big dreamers. They are looking for their prince and if they cannot find and meet him in their own country will begin to look for him in the land of milk and honey, the Western world.
They are looking for a prince who can make their dreams come true; who will love them to death; call her a princess and from time to time will give her a “champagne bath”. If you laugh after you read the last phrase, don’t.
I am as serious as a heart attack.|

These Russian women are not the only dreamers who are not facing reality but also many western men who are looking for Russian women.
Why?
Because a large majority of western men seek women who are willing to stay at home. A woman who will take care of her husband and kids. Western men are tired of the feminism movement and the independency of women from their own country and are trying to find peace for their soul in the arms of a Russian, “family oriented” woman.

Here is an interesting fact!
With the cost of living increasingly getting more and more expensive, the time when a family can survive with only the husband’s salary is gone forever! More and more women have to work to help make ends meet. With that in mind here is an interesting question :

Do all men, who are looking for a Russian women, have an income greater than the average married western man, who can hardly make meet ends, even though there is a working wife or, are these men just big dreamers?

Do these men dream about the perfect family with dinner on the table every night, made by his Russian wife-housekeeper?

Do they have a financial base that allows them to build a family with only his income or, are they dreamers without any connection to reality?

I understand that it is a difficult world to live in without dreams but when we are talking about relocating a woman from another country then at least one of the partners has to be a realistic and down to earth person.
Preferably, her future husband.

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If you have made plans to visit your Russian woman in Russia, then you need a visa to enter Russia.
In this case there are two kinds of visa you can use:

1. Using a tourist visa you need (to hand over the Russian Embassy in your country):
   1. A hotel booking.
      Confirmation documents from your hotel:
   2. The voucher of your hotel booking or reservation documents.
   3. An invitation of the hotel (the hotel need to be registered at the Ministry of Foreign affairs and they need to send you their reference number).
   4. Copy from your health care insurance (must be valid in Russia).
   5. A recent passport photo (black-white or color) preferable not on shining photo paper.
   6. Most of the times the Russian Embassy in your country wants to see an airline ticket
   7. A filled up and signed (including the photo) visa request form.
2. Using a private visa your need:
   1. Send a copy of your passport to your inviter (the Russian woman you want to visit).
   2. Your inviter needs to request a copy from her employer statement.
   3. Your inviter needs to make a copy of her passport
   4. Your inviter applies for a private invitation at the nearest OVIR ofice (*)
      It takes about one month to receive the invitation and costs about USD 15,-
   5. Your inviter sends the original invitation to you
   6. Then you go to the Russian Embassy of your country and apply for a private visa using items 4 to 7 of the items listed under (1), including the invitation (see for an example the photo).

(*) OVIR

This is a department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is situated in almost all cities of Russia. Large cities even have more offices. This department is accommodated at the police station of the city/village you Russian woman lives.

For more information about visa, please visit our Russian visa information section.

Example of a private invitation. Please let your inviter check all fields for correct data before sending it to you.

Article written by Irina Sbitneva, owner of Russian Women Info.com

The reality is that sexual desire does not stop once a man reaches the age of fifty. Most of these men are very happy to have a sex partner their own age or close to it. But, there is a percentage of these men, who are looking for sex and possibly a life partner who is much younger than them. This is especially true when men are trying to meet, then date, through the Internet.

In the every day world it is very difficult to start a relationship between older men and much younger women but for some reason that barrier appears greatly diminished if the relationship starts through the Internet. People seem less likely to be concerned about the age difference and love begins to flourish, which often times leads to marriage. Only after they physically get together or are married, that problems begin to crop up.

There is no doubt that the younger woman always makes her partner feel younger. During the first months of the relationship or marriage, it seems as though the man can beat all sexual records. The question is, how long will he stay in the same sexual peak once the honeymoon is over and life returns to a normal routine?

With age a variety of physical and emotional changes happen to the human body. A fact of nature that has nothing to do with our wishes. Unfortunately we cannot cheat mother nature but that does not mean the sex drive disappears. It does suggest is the approach to sex will often change. The successful sex life of these couples is enhanced by the manner of approach. Successful couples have taken the time to learn the secrets and tricks that allows them to survive the difficult moments. If both partners really love each other they will develop their own form of Karma Sutra. But in doing so, they have to trust each other and share their problems and sexual desires, openly.

Older men need to understand that although they probably cannot maintain the same fast and furious pace as they did in their twenties, their life experiences should more than make up for the physical aspect of love making. Older men usually have more control over the physical and mental state of their being and a much greater knowledge of pleasure for a woman. This “experience factor” grants them the ability of understanding the female body to stimulate and satisfy a woman which in turn should culminate in prolonged sexual stimulation prior to orgasm.

It can be a very exciting surprise for a young woman, whose only sexual experience may have been young men her own age. Women often complain that they need more foreplay in their love making and not all of them get it from young men.

Most men after 50 also need some kind of foreplay to achieve an erection. So, they turn this kind of situation into win-win arena for both! For older men, this foreplay can be very exiting as well and helps him to prepare his body for sex. Surprisingly, he can do it much quicker then he can expect , because playing and touching a young woman’s body will arouse his ability to perform sex, dramatically!

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By Marina Smiley

When people plan to marry, they expect to find in their partner not only a lover but a friend also. A person with whom they can share their opinions, their emotions, thoughts and fears.
In marriage we are looking for a partner who will be able to understand our values, our likes and dislikes.

If a man and a woman are born and raised in the same country, most likely they are familiar with the same songs, movies, jokes, books and life in general. They basically have the same roots.
In the case of a western man -foreign woman family everything is more complicated and requires much more patience and understanding from both spouses.

On one hand each of the partners has an opportunity to learn a great deal about the other’s country, culture, traditions and life styles which can be very interesting.
On the other hand it can be very disappointing, the inability to understand your partner’s excitements and, or frustrations. For example, say you are watching the television and suddenly you see a famous actor or singer, or other type of an artist whose name you have grown up with. Maybe this artist was an idol for your parents and the music of this artist was often played in your house when you were a child.

Now seeing this singer on television reminded you about your parents and house where you grew up in. You nostalgically remembered the tree that you saw from your window. You feel very light headed about this memory and want to share this feeling with your foreign wife.

Unfortunately you realize that she is unable to understand your feelings because she has no idea who this artist is.
Her eyes are absolutely empty, she has never even heard the song before. You cannot believe it !
You tell her that this artist is so famous! Everyone knows him!
How it possible that she doesn’t know???
Your light feelings of nostalgic disappear and instead you feel within your soul at very large disappointment …

Be patient! Don’t become upset so quickly.
Remember that your wife has the same situation with you.
You don t know her country’s songs, her country’s famous actors, her books. She has her own memories and in actuality, for her, everything is much more difficult than it is for you. At least, you live in your own country where everybody can understand you. She lives in completely strange surroundings, where she has nobody to share her feelings with, except you.

Do some research and learn about your wife’s country, culture and lifestyles. Talk with her, ask her questions, get to know what songs she likes, what movies and books are of interest to her.
The Internet will give you a great opportunity to find anything!
Tell her about your country’s culture, let her listen to the music that you like, rent a movie for her that left you with great impression. Let her understand you better through the things that you like.
Patience and time will help you to fight cultural differences .

Russian women who join agencies generally do not share this fact with other people such as friends and family. This is because the given attitude that most Russians have towards marriage agencies is negative and this often causes shame and problems for those that have joined. Unfortunately what this belief does is prevent the vast majority of qualified single women from joining any agency no matter how good it’s reputation.

There are other factors that compound this problem. Russian media and news has only conducted negative stories on marriage agencies. They have sensationalized various horror stories of some poor Russian women marrying some monster of an American man who has serious problems. Even though this does not represent the vast majority of happy unions between Russian women and American men it still gets used like a tabloid story to hook in more listeners and viewers and it works.

Another problem is the negative reputation of the agencies themselves. Russian people rarely hear about the good agencies but they often hear about the bad ones. Much of this criticism is deserved since there are a number of truly un-ethical marriage agencies which systematically scam both American men and Russian women.

American men who come over with a wrong attitude also end up hurting the reputation of agencies with Russian women as well. There are a number of desperate American men who have been fueled on a completely bogus belief that Russian women are “mail order brides”. With this in mind they come to Russia often acting like arrogant slave masters trying to “get the best deal”. These men either end up going home frustrated (because the good women here easily see through this) or they end up matching with a woman with questionable character and motives.

As you can imagine this hurts the reputation of the agency for bringing the man out in the first place and it also damages the general reputation of American men. I personally know of cases where outstanding Russian women with high hopes for a relationship were completely degraded by some American man and now they refuse to have anything to do with any marriage agencies.

Finally many good Russian ladies do not join agencies because they fear that it will make them appear desperate or look like they are prostituting themselves. In Russia there are a growing number of prostitution websites which look very similar to agency websites. An average Russian woman is proud, refined and conservative and she is very sensitive as to how other people see her. Accordingly she doesn’t want to appear like a commodity for sale.

You will want to keep in mind that this is just a perception and in no way means that the women who have already joined agencies are anything less then the stellar women that are described on RWA. Given these stereotypes it takes courage and a good streak of independence for both Russian women and American men to work with an agency.

Maybe this title sounds obvious for you, but I wish that all men would put this title above their computer screens

It is by sending money men breed dating scammers. If all men stopped sending money, dating scammers would become extinct. This is why all decent dating agencies prohibit money requests and sending money from one member to another.

Scammers (especially the ones who have send beautiful pictures of beautiful looking women) are trying anything to get your money. Begging for that extra money to buy a visa, or they write you how expensive medicines are in Russia (which is not). Or their Internet access is cutoff because of late payments and now they need money for Internet cafe’s to contact you. Just don’t believe all this crap!

Remember one thing, a decent, serious Russian woman looking for a partner will never ask you any money for anything. Even when she is really broke, can’t feed herself or whatever, she never will ask (or even tell) you anything if she is in some financial unfavourable circumstances.
And if someone does, then stop your communication with her, she is probably a scammer.

If you like to read more about Russian Dating Scams and how to avoid or recognize psosible scam, then I suggest to read my mini e-book: How to protect yourself from online dating scams

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Source: British Embassy Moscow

The demonstration, in capital Kiev, is tied to fears held amongst many Ukrainians that the growing sex tourism industry is tarnishing their country.

“Lots of foreigners come here for sex, and to put it bluntly sex tours are now being sold. We don’t want our country to become a big brothel. It’s a shame and it’s shameful,” said one girl.

Prostitution is illegal but nevertheless widespread, with around 12,000 prostitutes in the former Soviet republic. Many head overseas to ply their trade - some of them becoming sex slavery victims.

And increasing numbers of US and European visitors are heading to Kiev for the same reason they once favoured Bangkok - to hunt out sordid pleasures.