Didn't mean to come across like I was generalizing. My last gf was russian and she's told me a lot of what goes on with this business. It can be pretty ugly. No, she was never a mail order bride so she wasn't talking from personal experience, but she lived in the Brighton Beach area for 2 years before moving to Seattle. We visited NYC last summer, and she took me down there. Shady, shady, shady.....
I'm sure there is some legitimate businesses that are involved in the match making business in russia, but there is a whole lot of shady activity involved.
As I said, buyer beware.
Rusian business in general plays by rules that would be considered highly unethical here.
Brighton Beach is almost entirely mob run :) (How else do you think they can sell cds from American artists for like 6$ :) )
My wife is Russian. Her next door neighbor an English guy through an agency and is happily married.I know a fair amount of what girls go through on the other end, agencies are always encouraging them to meet old met they have no interest in. The agency always puts a high end number into what ages they're looking for so a girl can say she's looking for a max of 35 years old and the agency will put 35 to 50. The guys have no clue the woman has zero interest to meet them, and the agency is just trying to keep their business.