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Wife from Russia

Hi! My name is Alena. As the title of this site says, I am a Russian woman. I born and grew up in Russia, and spent the large part of my life there. I got married a man from the west, for him I "Russian wife".

I have a masters degree in philosophy and also a postgraduate education in marketing and advertising. For a few years I worked in commerce, then as a copywriter in the advertisement department of a prominent industrial plant with more than 3,800 employees.

My last position before I left Russia was as a regional manager of a large marketing agency that had representatives in 20 cities of Russia, where I had 180 people working for me and the income that would fit into top10 of the population. Though I've never had a problem with getting men's attention, I was not able to find The Man Of My Dreams in my homeland. When I was 26, I realized that my expectations towards this special man were constantly growing whilst my chances to find such a guy were decreasing in arithmetic progression. I did not see a man I would like to get married to, and even if on occasion one of these men looked alright, he has long been married. So at the age of 26 I was still single, which is more than just a little unusual for a Russian woman. It was not just strange, it looked suspicious, and I felt like a complete idiot every time I had to answer the question "Have you got married?"...

You know, marrying a foreigner is one of the hottest topics among Russian women. I think, any single Russian woman would have thought about it at least once in her life. This idea came to my mind several times since I was 26, and it took me as little as 3 years to start making it come true. I won't overburden you with the details, lets just say that my search was quite successful. I received more than 130 men's letters from all over the world, though about 70% were from the USA. I was seeking a partner, not a country, and a guy from Australia stole my heart... I moved to him in Australia...

I met my future husband in person. In 6 months we got married and now we have 2 beautiful children together. I still keep in contact with my Russian friends, and my successful story has encouraged many of them to try the same way. My cousin married a guy from the USA, and my friends are communicating with Americans, Australians and Europeans.

The idea of relationships between Western men and foreign women was really interesting to me, and that is why I decided to design this site. I would like to supply truly unbiased information about Russian women, their motives, aims, and conceptions, and touch on their misconceptions and superstitions. A while ago I was interviewed, and the lady-reporter seemed to be going to write a completely different story from the beginning of our interview. The announcement for the future article was "Australians mail order brides". Sounds a bit nasty, doesn't it? This was the first time I had heard this term "mail order brides", and honestly, I was shocked!!! I had no idea this was the way Russian women seeking partners abroad were represented in western media. Nevertheless, it looked like the lady-reporter changed her attitude. The cover page to the actual issue with the article said "Australians Mail Order Romances". A bit better. And the article finished with the words "Welcome" and "Good luck" addressed to all us Russian women.

This was my first encounter with the way Russian-western marriages were presented in the media. I looked on the Internet in search of the information, and was shocked even more. With so many sources offering information about Russian women, there was precious little information that was not one-sided, or purposefully incorrect. I found that there are two types of myths in Western society regarding Russian women, positive and negative, both are far from the truth. Even if there is a grain of truth in some of them, they are usually totally wrong about the reasons for the phenomena. This is why I decided to design my own website, and give the opinion of a Russian woman who came through the process herself. Being a qualified philosopher, I tried to deal with questions taking into consideration all facets of my experience, previous Russian and latest Western, and see the whole picture as opposed to looking at separate pieces of the puzzle, and trying to draw conclusions about the whole picture from this very piece. I hope it gives a better understanding of Russian women and Russia in general.

Please note that the main contents of this website, such this article " Wife from Russia ", were written long before I started my dating business, so please don't think they are a usual marketing course. They express the ideas of a Russian woman on subjects in question, and not the ideas of a dating website owner. I later revised some facts that became outdated but preserved the essence.

I am very proud to be one of the Russian women, who managed to make their way into the Internet business. When I left Russia I did not even know what the Internet was! Now I have an international dating agency - a dream come true!

Thanks!
Yours, Alena Ivanova