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Personally, I don't think it's worth splitting hairs on the exact advantages of speaking some Russian here.

However, I can say with great conviction, that if in my youth I had known what it...

I had some experience along those lines about five years ago when I had zero experience, zero Russian and I used a "marriage agency." Of course, the interpreter/guide they sent was a 55 year-old...

Interesting but I could not get the English page to work. An I've now spent 18 months learning Russian and refining my pitch on the Russian language versions of the dating web sites.

Qjump has pounced on the word "car" which follows from the idea that the men will pick the girls up.

Our friend and Senior Member LifeSavour, ever inventive and diligent, has pointed out that there is another Web site used by the locals that might be of interest to members of this forum.
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Acolonizer, thanks for the rant. I always wanted to learn words like karolesky. Meanwhile, I am searching for the deeper philosophical meaning in your post.

I wrote: "Given the nature of these...

Has anyone checked these out? There seem to be lots of profiles in Singles.ru /Mamba that follow the same style. On the first pages under "About Me," it says "See Album" . Then they use the...

Now this is journalism! And all you ex-pats who have complained that the Kiev Post is useless...time to eat your words.

Ash / vm

I'm meeting with the guy today on some other matters. He's starting his own company in residential sales (not brokering) and he is advising me as a favor. I will let you know if he...

Let me preface my response with a prediction: as with every other financial question on this forum, you will get a range of opinions. On one end, a fellow will tell you that if you want an indoor...

So, I'm checking out profiles on loveplanet.ua (that's the other big system separate from singles.ru ) and I run an advanced search for :

women aged 21 to 30, divorced with no kids, looking for...

I guess all of my friends in Kiev are too well off. They carry propiskas from whichever city their parents came from -- and they never mentioned looking for benefits from the municipal government. ...

MARRIAGE FOR A KIND : Well, this explanation made sense for only about 30 seconds....If two people are stuck with each other in the same flat, it may be MARRIAGE FOR A KIND, but that does not explain...

I'll confess that this explanation made sense for a minute and then left me totally confused. All of these women are already living in Kiev! They list themselves on singles.ru or loveplanet.ua as...

Yes, the phrases have about the same meaning as far as I can tell. Брак «для вида» and Фиктивный брак.

Any philologists out there who know for sure?

I generally meet girls through the two big dating sites Single.ru (with its variations) and loveplanet.ua (with its variations). Both of them have a category of "fictitious marriage" that some of...

Pluto2,

Nice tidy little analysis. Thanks. It's good to see we're getting some value from the CIA.

One statement that I don't follow. You wrote that with unemployment at 7% the girls don't...

Reiner Otto,

What do you mean "restart the scam-game again" ? You make it sound as though some good scam was stopped for a while and will now restart.

You can't possibly mean that the girls...

Has anyone notice an uptick in availability on singles. Ru or the other dating web sites? A significant increase in the number of attractive 20-24 years looking for sponsors and noting an acceptable...

Qjump,

I followed the link to the web site of Arco Real Estate. The girl pictured as the agent for the apartment is very pretty, but her price was not shown on the site. Should I just call the...

OK, it's fun to revel in the falling grivna, but economic prognostication is not the purpose of the forum.

You might all try a different forum www.expatua.com

They are much better informed...

Absolutely right. And if the advice of Otto and the German central banker are not enough to convince you, think of this...

When the Ukraine banking system crashes -- and you are holding dollars...

Sevastopol,

Maybe you and I met the same young man four years ago! But I told him that I am rather stupid and always like to win an argument and have the last word. So I pointed out that...

Otto,

I'm a little confused by the abbreviations. I know that the group that controls the banks is the IWF. The International Wildlife Foundation. That's why it's called a bear market.

But...

I get the gist of what you are saying, but let me see if I understand your first example. You have a rental property. You spoke to a rental agency. They told you that 45 days ago they had 200 people...