I wonder why she's not looking for a husband where she lives.
More and more, Russian women are OK with Russian men...now that they are getting financially established and more responsible. It took awhile for men to adjust from communism after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Women hadn't needed to adjust so much as look toward American men as an ideal.
The American fighting man followed by the American businessman...is an important icon in other countries. Leftism is often a blatant attempt by men in other countries (and by male journalists in the USA) to denigrate the competition/ideal that the American soldier/businessman often presents.
Very few American men can afford the $300 for a visa and the $800 for the flight and the $1000 hotel and food expenses that it would take to get a first date with her.
When he arrives, he better look like Bruce Willis...which isn't so hard to do by the way (buzz cut, getting in shape).
She will not sleep with him on his first visit either if she is ever willing to at all before marriage.
She will expect him to have read "Master and Margarita" or "War and Peace" or "Crime and Punishment". Not having read anything Russian will make her wonder if the man has anything in common with her or just liked her picture.
In other words, she will give an American man a chance of a lifetime to live up to her stylized ideal of how wonderful American guys are...and it will be up to him not to blow it. The operative word is the man will have a chance, which for someone who looks like her, is not something many American men will ever have.
Not that looks are necessarily important for a man. My girlfriend does not look this "pretty".
A full round of dating might take 12 months and 4 visits for an American man who has a full-time job and can only squeeze out a few 4 day weekends to take the trip.
[Very few American men can afford the $300 for a visa and the $800 for the flight and the $1000 hotel and food expenses that it would take to get a first date with her]
This is the cost outlay that a man needs to fly himself to Moscow or St. Petersburg. He isn't in the game if he cannot get there. To the west of Russia, Finland, Estonia and Poland are places that do not require the $300 visa expense. The women there also have huge respect for American males and often admire George Bush.
Then you get to Germany where I am now. German women in the north, like Berlin and Hamburg...are unfortunately mostly liberals like in the American north. But even they have memories of their parent's memories of the "Luftbruecke" where American pilots through candy out the windows of planes that were saving the people of Berlin from the Soviets.
The latent good will goes a long way in dating Americans.
I guess everyone is interested in "foreigners". I've played in Manhattan like I was a German guy when I was younger and the New York City women would seem to want to be my tour guide. Everyone wants to be a good diplomat.
Maybe the Russian women like American men so much because we were once big enemies. Which reminds me, because of their superpower status and seat on the Security Council, Russian women, unlike Latvian or Finnish women, have the kind of high self confidence you would otherwise only see in the USA and, recently, China.
American, Russian and Chinese women seem IMHO to have the highest self-worth factor in the world because these three countries are considered the 3 main superpowers and have been so considered for 60 years.
A guy earlier asked me what kind of women I could have possibly been hanging out with that would sleep with Al Qaeda supporters.
The answer: Boston MIT, 17 year old freshman with 1600 SATs entered chemistry department and talked with me about nanotechnology. Walked me to my car asking how a smart guy like me could be for the Iraq War. She actually took notes as I told her about websites like Strategypage.com or FR. She admitted to me that she has 2 Lebanese boyfriends who truly hate George Bush. I said "surely you wouldn't sleep with the enemy". She said that she didn't consider them the enemy, but rather Bush and the warmongers. Very mixed up teenager. But normal on the Boston student scene.
Boston College Chemistry Department: Worked with Muslim-Frenchman who came across very nerdy, aged 21, but otherwise a nice guy if you could look away from his support for Saddam and Bin Laden (yes, I always went to the FBI website to report people who supported Bin Laden, especially in Germany - there are fewer people these days who do by the way). He had the most stunning of American girlfriends. It was incongruous. She was truly a knock-out. Got into an argument with her one day when she visited about the coming Iraq War where she said "We MUST follow France's lead. If they say no in the Security Council, we must do what they say." I said "I really hope you are not dating Mohammed because you feel so much antipathy toward guys like me who want the war to happen. It is not fair to him if you are just out to spite white guys." They broke up within the week. I don't know why.
I guess my answer is Boston College and Boston College. The American college scene is where anti-Bush arabs get "lucky."
Which reminds me of a great book that came out last year about a woman from the south who enters an Ivy League college. It is called I am Charlotte Simmons.