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Some advice from Russia for the materially deprived women

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:57:10 -0500

Some advice from Russia for the materially deprived women of Ireland: if you're wondering where it all went wrong and why you ended up not marrying a millionaire, let alone a billionaire, first take a look in the mirror. Chances are that some, if not most, of the following attributes apply to you: you wear flat shoes; if you do wear earrings, they'll be plain old studs, not the dangly, sparkly sort favoured by men of taste; your hands and feet are unmanicured, your eyebrows unplucked; your hair is blow-dried only for weddings. Doubtless you also favour tights over stockings, and if you have ever taken them off in front of a man, you haven't done so in pigtails while sucking a lollipop and in time to George Michael's Father Figure. You haven't done so because feminist thought has led you to think that it is demeaning to be subservient. But from Moscow comes the news that the most attractive part of a woman's body is "irrefutably still the arse". This is Vladimir Rakovsky's view, and he thinks he should know. Over the past 10 years Rakovsky has become the leading authority on how to marry a millionaire. His oversubscribed courses in Moscow, Kiev, and St Petersburg instruct women how to find, and hold on to, a Real Man. I tell him that many people in Ireland think a Real Man is the kind of person who knows how to change a nappy or cry. Rakovsky digests this with a grimace, for him it is more proof of the corrupting influence of the West, which he also holds partly responsible for the invention of the detested "metrosexual". No, a Real Man in Russia is only three things: he is good in bed, he has emotion and he has money. As long as he has these three things he doesn't even have to be attractive or sober. Rakovsky is sober but less attractive in real life than he is on his website, which does a good job of obscuring his striking paunch. Sign up for one of his $200 (�145) six-part "Stervologiya" courses (the word derives from the Russian for "*censored*"), says the website, and you can become "a strong, successful self-confident woman; a player who can skilfully manipulate a man". She gets what she wants by "creating a whole system with which to play with a man" and making comments such as: "I have a big bum, do you want to touch it?" We are in a back room in an empty Moscow theatre where Stervologiya classes take place. Everything that you need to know about post-communist Russian sexual politics is here. Twelve women in short skirts and heels are taking rapt, meticulous notes. Rakovsky is sympathetic but firm: "Russian women are psychologically repressed because of their history. The traditional Soviet understanding of a woman's role is that she should take the lead. "Women have been told that to get something they have to try a lot. What I teach is a little bit different.,He asks the women to draw up on paper a plan of how to attract a rich man, to begin a relationship and make it serious. One woman suggests joining a deep-sea diving club. Another suggests her local bar. Rakovsky is unimpressed by their lack of vision: "If you want a real man you have to have a real strategy. I'll give you an example of a genius plan," he says. "A woman decides to open a VIP club and sends invitations to only rich, attractive men. On opening night she is the sole woman there. This is a plan with strategic realisation.,Irina, a 28-year-old, turned to Stervologiya after she was dumped for the first time in her life. It has, she says, given her confidence and, in Rakovsky's words, helped her to "identify her prey". Tonight her enormous cleavage threatens to break loose from her low-cut frilly top. In the corner, Ivgenia (23) Vladimir's wife, stands in a short black dress, casting her connoisseur's gaze over the assembled stragglers. Once her husband has set this week's homework (return next week with the business cards of at least three interesting men), she will take the women next door for Part Four of the Art of Seduction, in which her charges learn to permanently walk as if on a catwalk and take off what few clothes they have on in an alluring yet sophisticated manner and in time to Britney Spears's I'm a Slave 4 U. They will learn how to wiggle their hips, kneel in a posture of mock subjugation and eat a banana suggestively by practising in front of a mirror -- all with a view to some day applying those techniques to the anatomy of a very successful man. Why? Because in one crucial aspect she outclasses them all. Besides Stervologiya, her husband owns several other thriving businesses. He is middle-aged and overweight. But he is rich. http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/relationships/so-tell-me-svetlana-what-was-it-that-first-attracted-you-to-this-old-fat-bald-billionaire-1043160.html

In the eye of the beholder - beautiful Russian women

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:54:11 -0500

The survey also found that Russian women (77%) care most about whether men like their looks. Maybe the Russians are the most honest in answering this question! A survey commissioned by Clinique revealed the common and diverse ideals of beauty held by women in different places. . WHAT do women want? Or, what are they even thinking, you ask? It�s easy to assume what�s on their minds. But, as they say, that would be making an ass out of you and me. Take for instance women in the United States. It would be easy to assume that Americans would name telegenic celebrities like Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Lopez as the standard-bearer of beauty. Instead, at least half of them think that Oprah Winfrey, often called America�s most influential woman, is the person who best represents the ideal of beauty. Jennifer Aniston came in second (31%). Jolie only scored third placing, with 28%. In fact, American women are the most jaded when it comes to seeing Hollywood stars and models in beauty ads. This was the unexpected outcome of a 12-country survey, which polled 9,800 women between the ages of 16 and 59, from June to October last year. �From Milan to Malaysia, women follow many of the same trends,� Clinique Global Communications, which commissioned the survey, concluded in a statement. �And yet, there is still something unique and special about how each one of us approaches the concept of beauty.� The survey was solely to learn about women and beauty. �This was not about Clinique or its products. In fact, as this was a blind poll conducted by an independent research firm, the participants did not know that it was commissioned by us.� The findings were released in New York on Jan 25. It found that most Indians (84%) and Russians (80%) rated women from their own country as the most beautiful in the world. British women do not see themselves as the prettiest, according to the findings. Still, there is a somewhat universal agreement on beauty. �Women in India, Italy, Russia and the United States are considered among the most beautiful in the world.� The survey also found that Russian women (77%) care most about whether men like their looks. Maybe the Russians are the most honest in answering this question! More than half of the women surveyed agreed that it is important that men find their looks appealing. Are women willing to go under the knife? The Koreans are the champions here. At least half of them have had, or would consider, cosmetic surgery. On the other hand, only 3% of Indian women are keen. Good skin is a priceless commodity in the Land of the Rising Sun, where 40% of women feel that money is no object if the skincare product is effective. Chinese women apparently do not feel pressured to look more beautiful. The Koreans (poor them) say they feel the most pressure. This surely explains the high number of them seeking out plastic surgeons. The Chinese, Koreans and Indians think that women with thick make-up are cringeworthy. Women in Mexico (43%) feel that not enough importance is placed on outward appearance. (Are they mad?) By the way, Indian women washed their faces most frequently. Half of them would clean up at least twice a day and most of them would just use a bath soap to do the job. Which is the beauty product that women can�t live without? Again, it depends on whom you�re asking. Fragrance ranks high for those in Mexico, Spain and South Africa. Japanese women won�t leave home without using the sun block while mascara is essential in Germany and Italy. Almost all Koreans and Japanese women use sunscreen products, unlike the South Africans (40%) and Indians (31%) who scorn them. One near-universal finding was unsurprising. Wrinkles and lines are often the biggest skincare concern of women everywhere. The exceptions are those from China and South Korea who are more worried about blemishes and acne while the enemy in Japan is the age spot. Vanity, thy name is woman. Author: Andrew Osborne

Russian schoolgirl's diaries tell of cruel life under Stalin

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:51:36 -0500

A 13-year-old schoolgirl who kept a poignant and ultimately tragic diary about her life growing up in Stalin's Soviet Union has been hailed as Russia's answer to Anne Frank. The diaries of teenager Nina Lugovskaya, called I Want to Live: The Diaries of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia, will be published in English on Friday after lying in a KGB file for 50 years. They offer an unusually perceptive view of the Soviet Union in the 1930s, combined with intimate soul-searching about the kind of everyday difficulties faced by teenage girls everywhere: boys, parties and parents. Like Anne Frank, Nina was 13 when she began keeping her diary; and like the Amsterdam schoolgirl she was writing in the shadow of one of the 20th century's most repressive regimes. In 1937, at the height of Stalin's purges, her family's Moscow flat was raided and her diaries, which covered the years 1932-37, were confiscated by the secret police. Nina's father, a left-wing socialist revolutionary, had already incurred the Kremlin's wrath and spent time in prison and in exile. But her negative feelings about Stalin's government, feelings that she expressed in the diaries, were to be the undoing of the rest of the family. Together with her mother and two sisters, Nina was found guilty of treason and branded a counter-revolutionary. They spent five years of hard labour in the Siberian gulag, followed by seven years of internal exile. It was an ordeal that the young diarist's mother did not survive. But Nina did: after Stalin's death she was politically rehabilitated. She married and became an artist, and lived long enough to see the fall of Communism. She died in 1993 at the age of 74. The diaries were unearthed in 2001 by Irina Osipova, a researcher for Memorial, an organisation that tries to keep alive the memory of Stalin's victims. They had lain forgotten, scrawled in childish handwriting on the pages of three school exercise books, in a KGB archive in Moscow. Author: Andrew Osborne

Russian Girls and Oligarch

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:48:41 -0500

Russian women keen to snare their very own oligarch and live wealthily ever after have been thrown a lifeline with the publication of a female gold-diggers' manual telling them how to get their man. Russian women keen to snare their very own oligarch and live wealthily ever after have been thrown a lifeline with the publication of a female gold-diggers' manual telling them how to get their man. The tongue-in-cheek tome, entitled "Married to a Millionaire or Marriage of a Higher Sort," has been penned by the country's brashest It girl and a well known society novelist specialising in lifting the lid on the lives of Russia's super rich. Though the book is written in a light-hearted style, it is designed to appeal to millions of young girls looking for their 'Prince Charming' in a country where the gap between the haves and have-nots is staggering and growing wider by the day. "There are enough oligarchs in Russia to go round!" its back-cover screams. "Your equipment: a smile, a sense of humour, optimism and fervour. Marry a Prince? It's easy." The manual, which begins by wishing its readers 'Happy Hunting!," has been written by endlessly self-promoting socialite Ksenia Sobchak, a self-styled Russian Paris Hilton figure, and Oksana Robsky, who has made a name for herself writing semi-autobiographical accounts of her rich friends and wealthy ex-husbands. The book comes with a large health warning, reflecting the fact that many marriages to oligarchs apparently end in bitter divorces. In fact the glamorous duo begins by urging readers to assume at the outset that if they do manage to marry an oligarch (and they admit that the odds are not in your favour) the chances are that the union will end in divorce. Better, they say grimly and perhaps with a nod to Irina Abramovich, to start planning for life after marriage on the wedding day itself. Accumulating as much expensive jewellery at your husband's expense is one of their tips as is starting up your own business while the marriage is still intact -- using your husband's money of course. "If you're dreaming of great love an oligarch is the last person you need," the manual advises. "You need an oligarch if you're dreaming of money, big money." In fact if you're what they call "a good girl," and want to live happily and comfortably, they suggest marrying a man from the 'up middle class' whom they suggest has fewer psychological flaws than an oligarch but whose wallet can be just as accommodating. The two authoresses, who are pictured on the front cover in risque evening dresses toting machine guns, go on to compare oligarchs to wild animals likening them, according to their personality, to different species from bears to bucks. They reveal various ruses how to get your oligarch to buy you expensive presents such as pretending you have lost your luggage for weekends away by bribing airline staff to orchestrate its temporary disappearance. Any oligarch worth his borscht will immediately offer to buy you a new wardrobe, they claim. Ironically, when it comes to living happily ever after, the authors admit that their credentials are mixed since Ms Robsky has been thrice unhappily married while Ms Sobchak has never been married. Author: Andrew Osborne

Russian Brides Invade America

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:44:45 -0500

Female emigration from Russia is highly specific. A mere 15% emigrate for employment, while a majority go to America to get married. 75,000 Russian girls immigrated to the USA on so-called fiancee visas within the last ten years, and an equal number on other visas but with the same purpose of matchmaking, reports Olga Makhovskaya, executive manager of a social support programme for Russian emigrant families, and member of an ad hoc team which is drafting a bill to prevent slave traffic. As she was addressing a news conference in Moscow today, Miss Makhovskaya cited impressive figures. Official statistics give the number of Russian immigrants in the USA for the last 12 or 13 years as 800,000, while unofficial make it three million. Russians-mainly of Jewish ethnicity-have been immigrating on the Jackson-Vanik amendment ever since the 1970s. Prominent rights activist, Olga Makhovskaya has several reasons to explain a Russian fiancee inflow to the USA. Russian family patterns are losing popularity apace. The West is pining for Russian beauties. Last but not least, the many male immigrants who come to America in search of better jobs prefer to marry fellow immigrants. There is a pronounced generation gap between Russian fiancees, with an average age of 19-20, and their men, who are, for the most part, past forty. 80 to 90% of such marriages bring a divorce two years after the wedding-threshold term to obtain residence permits. The State Duma, the Russian parliament's lower house, has appointed initial hearings on the anti-slave traffic bill for February 17. Apart from getting married to stay in America, it will concern far more dramatic instances, too-forcing girl immigrants into prostitution, adoptions with unseemly purposes, and trade in human organs for transplantation surgery. Matchmaking agencies will have their share of liability for arranging fictitious transnational marriages. http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7033-2.cfm

Foreign men can manipulate and cheat Russian brides too

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:03:12 -0500

It is a typical situation today when Russian girls no longer want to date and marry Russian men and seek marriage with foreigners whom they hope to find with the help of the Internet. Russian girl Natasha Ivanova from the city of Voronezh surfed dating websites in search of good male candidates for starting a happy family life. Once she came across a file registered by a man who named himself Dmitry. Natasha liked the man's photo and his motto saying that though he had everything he at the same time had no one by his side to make this person happy and share his wealth with. The girl decided to send a message to the man as she found him very attractive. In return the young man told that he had a private house and owned business in London where he lived. The new details made the man even more attractive for Natasha. She willingly started romantic correspondence with Dmitry. Very soon the man said he was planning to come to the city where Natasha lived, to Voronezh. One evening Dmitry knocked at Natasha's door with a bottle of champagne and chocolate in his hands. The girl was pleased with the man's readiness to help her cook meals and with his manner to shower compliments on her. Dmitry spent that first night in Natasha's apartment. All the time the young people spent together Dmitry helped Natasha about the house, told her about his parents, friends and the dog he left in London. Now Natasha says with a shade of sadness that Dmitry treated her like no other men had ever treated her before. She liked his manners and care. Dmitry said that he wanted to be together with Natasha till end of his life. In a little while Dmitry started complaining that he had some financial problems. He suddenly found out that his bank had not transferred money to his account, at that he could not get through to his friends who as he explained could help him solve his financial problems Being so depressed with the money problem Dmitry several times requested Natasha to raise a bank loan. At first the girl took a 10,000 ruble loan ($400) in the bank but Dmitry went into hysteric as he thought the sum was ridiculously small. He blamed the girl for lack of confidence in him and cried she must trust him if she planned to have a family and children with him. In a week after the scandal Natasha had an unexpected telephone call from Svetlana, a girl whom Dmitry abandoned when started dating Natasha. As it turned out, Svetlana also had fallen victim of his tricks connected with money and bank loans. Svetlana Melnik, 25, from the Moscow Region got acquainted with Dmitry thanks to a friend of hers who said that "some good guy had no place to spend a night". As a result, Dmitry lived in Svetlana's apartment for two months, the period during which he artfully tricked the girl into taking bank loans to the sum of 90,000 rubles (over $3,500). As soon as the man got the money he vanished. When Svetlana realized that Dmitry escaped with the money she immediately rushed to the computer to check the websites that Dmitry had surfed and the correspondence that the man actively maintained with other people. Svetlana was shocked when Dmitry's mail box revealed that he had virtual romance with one hundred of girls living in various places of Russia! The girl noticed that correspondence with Natasha from Voronezh had been the most recent and most active one. There were 400 messages sent to the other girl and received from her. Svetlana read the correspondence and found Natasha's phone number. The girl hesitated for a long time before she finally called Natasha. She thought that she must warn the other girl of troubles that Dmitry could cause her. The shocking news made Natasha tremble. She at first hoped the bad story was just slander invented by Dmitry's ex-partner to break their love. But later she still decided to go to the police and make inquiries about Dmitry. The police said that Dmitry was an inveterate swindler on the federal wanted list. She learnt that the man had been jailed for forgery of documents. When released Dmitry started cheating unsuspecting girls into taking bank loans for him. Moscow and several other cities of Russia were in the focus of his concerns. For the time being five girls who fell victims of Dmitry's cheating have already informed the police of it. Investigation is sure that the man managed to cheat much more girls who did not dare come to the police. Dmitry will face a five-year imprisonment for the swindle. In case more girls complain of similar cheating that Dmitry committed to them the man will face a longer imprisonment. Natasha says it would be good for other girls cheated by Dmitry to report their incidents to the police. She swears off seek more partners on the Internet as she does not believe that she may find a normal man there. Source: kp.ru

From Russia with love? No, it's a Web scam

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:58:57 -0500

Medvedeva is one of scores, perhaps hundreds, of fictional characters in a resurgent Internet hustle that has become a Russian boom industry this year. Using fake names, forged visas and snapshots of young Russian women, a new crop of online swindlers is luring Western victims into confidence games. Each is an escalating flirtation between an unsuspecting man and a Russian grifter masquerading as a young woman. It typically ends when the victim wires money to Russia to pay for visas and airfare for a consummation of the affair. Then the beloved disappears.

Maryland Woman Wins Russian Internet Dating Case

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:50:09 -0500

A federal jury awarded as much as $434,000 to a Ukrainian woman who sued the matchmaking service that set her up with the man who allegedly abused her after they wed. Nataliya Fox accused Encounters International of fraud and negligence, saying it should have screened its male clients and told her about a law that helps foreign nationals escape abusive relationships without fear of automatic deportation. Instead, Fox testified, agency owner Natasha Spivack told her to endure the alleged abuse or return to Ukraine.

Russian scammers, Russian women scams

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:27:35 -0500

Scammers are the girls, who have no interest in getting married to a foreigner. Their main intention is swindling money out of naive men. A scammer pretends that she is really interested in a man. She writes nice and affectionate letters. When a man comes to meet her, she behaves as if she is in love with him. But as only he sends her money (sometimes not only once), brings her gifts or buys her the things she wants, she disappears or breaks up with the man. Most of the times it is quite easy to recognize a scammer. She writes back without any delaying and seems to be very interested in developing correspondence. In a couple of letters she may start showing her affection for a man, and in another couple of letters she may ask a man for money� But sometimes it is difficult to discover a scammer girl, as some of them are really skillful actresses. She may develop a relationship to a point of a marriage proposal� and then she may try to disappear with a ring. Men reading this article may ask what we shall do then? How can we figure out a scammer? Should we suspect all the girls submitted to the agency? We will not retail stale news, if we state that the only way to avoid meeting with a scammer is not to be too naive. If you are a mature man and choose to write a girl in her early 20-ies or receive letters from a very young girl, be aware that she may have some other ideas on her mind, except sincere interest to your "outstanding" personality. If you are older than 45 years old, think twice before choosing a very young girl. Just think about it in a sober way, ask yourself: What do I have to attract a young girl? If I were in her shoes, a man like me would attract me? A young girl may try to take advantages of old men. Thus, we are closing you to the thought that it is men, who provoke the appearance of scammers. If some of the men were not so naive and stupid sending money to never-met persons, scammers would not probably ever show up. It was men, who showed the girls the ways of cheating money out of them. The girls listed in the marriage agencies are very different. They come to the agency by different reasons. Most of the girls do want to find a husband. Some of them join the agency because of curiosity; other ones go to the agency by chain reaction (because their friends did it) but few of them are mercenary-minded from the beginning. They become scammers in the processes of searching for a partner. If a girl is young and beautiful, she normally is contacted by many different men, some of the men may be much older her. The older ones quite often send girls money to attract their attention or compensate the age gap. Thus, a girl is showed that she can gain some profits from some of the men.

Russian scam marriage agencies

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:24:14 -0500

A scammer-agency is an agency, which introduces the girls, who are not real. A scammer-agency has a database of non-existing persons. A database may include the photos of professional models or just beautiful girls, who are married already (as a rule, the girls have no idea that their photos are submitted to a database). Usually it is scanned from other databases. The purpose of a scam is to attract customers by beautiful pictures. Normally, a scammer-agency has agents writing letters for the girls. If a man comes to meet a girl, usually he finds out that the girl is not available. Then, the agency does the best to make a customer to meet other girls. Usually a man agrees, as he has no way out. He has already covered a huge distance and it would be stupid not to try another chance. Thus, the goal of the agency is reached. They have got a customer and make money on him. With the development of marriage industry the amount of scammer-agencies is becoming less and less. Different anti-scammers project were worked out to defend marriage customers. Always listen to your heart, think realistically and objectively.