Russian Women are Very Fond of Western men

More myths and truths about Russian women of the former Soviet Union:

• Russian women are very fond of Western men. 
• Russian women dislike Russian men.
• All Russian women are eager to escape Russia for the better life on the West.

All these statements are pure lies.

Myths and Truths: Russian women are very fond of Western men.

Russian women like Russian men. A Russian woman would prefer to get married to a Russian guy. Russian life is quite an adventure, and Russian men are smart and interesting to be with.

If so, then why are Russian women are looking for husbands abroad?

The answer is that they want to have good husbands. Russian men just can't make good husbands. Russian men are nice but Russian traditions of family life are not. When one grows up in a society, one acts according its rules and traditions. It is not because one is bad, it is just a natural result of the social environment.

I know a few Russian families who have moved from Russia to other countries. The wives are quite happy about the situation in their families. I believe I am also a different wife than I would be if I* married a Russian guy and stayed in Russia. One can't live in a society and be free of its rules and customs.

Myths and Truths: Russian women dislike Russian men.

The objective reasons why Russians can't make good husbands are alcohol abuse, and their poor health conditions. All have their roots in the society life. Women of 18 years old have no problems with finding appropriate partners of their age, and most of them do. The Russian woman's relationship problem starts later.

The Russian society and life's conditions push men towards alcohol addiction, which causes in its turn problems with health. There are, of course, men who are healthy and take good care of their families, but they usually get married early and stay married.

There is also such a reason as demographic disproportion between men and women. Women outnumber men, and though this difference is not really huge, 10% according to different studies, it gives a big absolute number of lonely women, who have zero chances to find a life partner. The demographic disproportion also does not take place in the age group 18-25 years old, but starts from the age of 30 and up.

Myths and Truths: All Russian women are eager to escape Russia for the better life on the West.

The statement that all Russian women would be happy to escape Russia for the better life in the West is also grossly exaggerated. As far as I know, dating agencies have a permanent but limited flow of new applicants. Many women sign with a few agencies. According my estimations, it's not more than 100,000 women who are featured by different agencies, including Russian local marriage agencies. Some of the women have already got married, gave up their search or found a partner in Russia.

The majority of single women don't consider finding a husband abroad as an option. Even if they can't find a partner in their homeland, they would never leave Russia. Many women who signed up with agencies, do not perform an intensive search and have this way only as one of several options. It's particularly true towards young women under 25 years old.

Population of Russia is about 150 million people with 77-80 million women. Thus, the share of women trying to find a foreign husband is not more than 0.13% of the total number, and only about 0.5% of the number of single women. As I already said, for a big part of them signing with agencies is just a try, and they do not consider this opportunity as a real option.

(This is Dennis: I concur with what Elena Petrova writes about, "they do not consider this opportunity as a real option." My Nadia was shocked to even find me on the Internet let alone eventually marrying me and moving from her lifestyle, culture, family and friends to come and live in the USA. At best she thought that she might, that is maybe, per chance, be lucky enough to find a "good guy", as they call us guys, somewhere in Europe, let alone half way around the world!) 

*Above was written by Elena Petrova