I am very glad to see the following article in Bloomberg, after all slanted and biased press that Russia and the CIS women seemed to have been getting for such a long time.
March 28 (Bloomberg) - When Nick Wilsdon met his Russian wife, Anna, on the Internet, friends teased him about his mail-order brides. It turns out he was a mail-order husband.
Three years after the first exchange of e-mail to Anna on the dating site, a web designer from the south coast of England made a 2200-mile trek to Ivanovo, Russia in the "city of brides." He and Anna are now expecting their first child.
Ivanovo region has the highest ratio of women to men in Russia, the legacy of the Soviet textile mills that imported female workers from across the country. The city, which once helped marriage bureau recruit young women for foreign spouses, is now enticing residents to stay and raise families. This is fueling a baby boom as Russia struggles to stem population decline.
Now it's great to see how the coverage of this on a city in Russia, but keep in mind that Ivan is not the only place with a large imbalance in the ratio of men and women. You can travel anywhere in most of the former Soviet Union and it is easy to experience it for yourself.
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