Sure, Amir seemed great in his online dating profile: a dentist and recreational snowboarder with adorable, non-ironic facial hair, but he was a total bore on that first dinner date. (Really? Red Lobster?)

Anyone who’s registered with a dating site can tell you how often those matches who seem so promising online end up being duds IRL (in real life).

The folks behind HowAboutWe, a newly-launched dating service profiled by Mashable have designed a solution to that problem: forget about those vanity profile pictures shot in front of the mirror or those contrived lists of favourite activities, users choose their matches based on the dates they propose.

The site is of the same vein as Alikewise, where you can look for matches based on book tastes.

One 32-year-old male Torontonian and user of HowAboutWe offers: How about we... pretend we're tourists in our own city and go see the sights we've been meaning to...but haven't yet.

A 25-year-old woman from Montreal suggests: How about we... go skiing for a day and learn to know each other on the lift

There are thousands of museums to explore during your trip to Russia and the capital city has just added another one, which happens to be the largest of its kind in all of Europe. The indoor ice sculpture museum at Sokolniki Park occupies over 7,500sq.ft. and is now welcoming visitors to gaze upon various frozen creations.

World famous sculptors used 800 tons of ice and 200 tons of snow to construct a living room complete with ice furniture, a Christmas manger scene, a world of insects, an alien invasion, a prehistoric section with a giant mammoth, and more. Guests can also enjoy the finest Russian vodka in glasses made of ice.

You probably know several Russian or Ukrainian brides named Anastasia since it is one of the most popular names given to females of the former Soviet Union. Like the Greek male name Anastasius, it means “resurrection” and was the name of several early saints. One of the most famous was Anastasia of Sirmium, a 4th century Christian saint who was martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

Another popular Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Legends about her mysterious survival from her family’s massacre have circulated for years and many Russian women have claimed to be the Grand Duchess. It wasn’t until 2008 that Russian scientists finally confirmed that the 17-year-old Tsarina was indeed executed alongside her family in 1918 by the Bolshevik secret police.

A long list of Russian actresses, athletes, and singers share this name, including Billiards Champion Anastasia Luppova, Dart Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova, and Ukrainian singer Anastasia Kamenskikh. Some ladies prefer the nickname Nastya.

In an attempt to better communicate with Russian women, many members of RussianLoveMatch are attempting to learn the ladies' native language. While we applaud and encourage these efforts, our email system cannot handle Cyrillic characters so we ask that gentlemen write emails in English only.


At times, Cyrillic characters may pass through the system with no problems but they usually cause a variety of issues including emails being cut short or not being visible to the lady, characters appearing as meaningless symbols, gentleman being unable to type a full message, etc. Members of RussianLoveMatch don’t have to pay extra for translation, so why risk sending a faulty message when our translators can help you successfully communicate with a Russian lady? If things go well, you’ll be able to practice Russian in person soon enough.

Mens diamond rings are becoming more and more popular with the modern man. As more men celebrate their marriage by the wearing of a wedding ring, mens diamond rings are fast becoming the new mens fashion.

The wearing of a wedding ring by a man is a reasonably new phenomenon. It is only really since the second world war that the wearing of a wedding ring by a man became common. However it is taking off now, as are diamond mens rings .

And there are different considerations for a man’s wedding jewelry than for a woman.

Someday ..

I hope all you are lucky enough to be invited to the humble but loving home of a Russian woman and her family.

It will be really time, "You'll never forget."

So let me go back in time a little and share with you that "I will never forget."

On the first evening of my arrival in Siberia, I was invited to attend his mother's house in our beautiful Inessa's for dinner.

Now I'm one of those guys who have never been real big fan of tennis.

And I'm still trying to figure out how to warm-weather outdoor sports like tennis should be so popular in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Eastern Europe, where there are sometimes only 3 to 4 months of good weather.

In any case, when I see such examples of sterling beauty and athleticism in action this certainly gives me pause and makes me reconsider the attitude to my game.

This is especially true if I get a chance to see ladies like to get all hot and sweaty at work and back chasing a fuzzy ball in a scant clothing on a green courtyard.

Hmm, maybe I just answered my own question.

In-case you were wondering where I was recently ..

2 weeks ago I finally decided to make the big switch from dumping Windows Vista and install Ubuntu.

For those of you not there .. technogeeks

Ubuntu just the Linux operating system bundled with a very user-friendly graphical interface and applications with open source.

Patriarch Cyril piviotal religious figure in Russia, because it is one of the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church.

His words carry great weight, and I believe he is trying to approve a further important role that Russian women play in maintaining social and cultural life of this country without any changes.

I have been to different villages in Russian as he is, and I can also check the strength and resilience of these women in maintaining their households and communities together, despite the often overwhelming struggle and hardship.

I am very glad that he made the following statements and brought more attention to these everyday heroines.

24-year-old Anna Sharevich is another example of the eye opening of intellectual talent from the former Soviet Union.

Usually I always enjoy a demonstration to the ladies, as it is to spell different races stereotypes that exist about Russian women.

But I must admit, the image of chess Russian beauty says, "checkmate" is a stereotype I do not mind the promotion at all. ;)