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[1HappyGuy 45]

There are way to many unscientific surveys be touted as evidence of how people feel. Our own TV stations are just as guilty as this job site. Do you really expect women looking for jobs to answer that they would rather find a foreign husband than a good job? That's like saying, "Take my name off the list".

It is interesting how the article is put together with the job site saying less women are looking because of various reasons but the marriage web sites quote statistics of a growning number getting married to foreigners. Are we to understand that in 4 short years the percentage of women looking for desirable husbands outside of Russia has dropped from 46% to 9% due to greatly improved economic conditions.

Perhaps if the job site had paid for an unbiased poll asking a number of questions to derive real life opinions of young single women, we could believe the statistics then.

[Rob_Lesya 4]

Are we to understand that in 4 short years the percentage of women looking for desirable husbands outside of Russia has dropped from 46% to 9% due to greatly improved economic conditions.

You make some excellent points. These particular numbers are probably based not just on "improved economic conditions" but on the factors that have gone along with that --- ability to travel outside Russia and see other countries, increased access to Western media, etc.

But I suspect that BIGGEST factor in such a quick drop has been the economic "crisis" that has hit the entire world (but especially the problems experienced in the U.S.) during the past year. IF economic factors were the main motivation for wanting to get out of Russia, what's the incentive now to leave Russia and move to a place where you're going to see the same level of joblessness and economic uncertainty no matter where you go?.

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Are we to understand that in 4 short years the percentage of women looking for desirable husbands outside of Russia has dropped from 46% to 9% due to greatly improved economic conditions.

You make some excellent points. These particular numbers are probably based not just on "improved economic conditions" but on the factors that have gone along with that --- ability to travel outside Russia and see other countries, increased access to Western media, etc.

But I suspect that BIGGEST factor in such a quick drop has been the economic "crisis" that has hit the entire world (but especially the problems experienced in the U.S.) during the past year. IF economic factors were the main motivation for wanting to get out of Russia, what's the incentive now to leave Russia and move to a place where you're going to see the same level of joblessness and economic uncertainty no matter where you go?.

My wife tells me there are programs on Russian TV showing the horrors of Russian women marrying men outside of Russia. Clearly the propaganda machine is busy putting out distorted information typical of a country fearful of loosing more and more citizens to migration to other countries. Russia has considered making laws to restrict women from leaving Russia.

Any data coming from Russian sources should always be taken with a large grain of salt.

[Rob_Lesya 4]

My wife tells me there are programs on Russian TV showing the horrors of Russian women marrying men outside of Russia. Clearly the propaganda machine is busy putting out distorted information typical of a country fearful of loosing more and more citizens to migration to other countries.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that many of these programs are, in fact, not Russian made. I've seen the Indle King story on at least 3-4 different programs within the Discovery Channel family of channels. And these same programs have also done other segments on the dangers of foreign marriages or the difficulties in international child-custody disputes.

There is at least one channel in Russia (I want to say it is RTR-Planeta, but I might be mistaken) whose main source of programming is all of the American made Discovery Channel programs. And since there is a "local interest" (yes I know-- Anastasia King was actually from Bishkek, not Russia, but according to you vv, it's all the same) it wouldn't surprise me if these programs get played often.

[eekee 182]

My wife tells me there are programs on Russian TV showing the horrors of Russian women marrying men outside of Russia. Clearly the propaganda machine is busy putting out distorted information typical of a country fearful of loosing more and more citizens to migration to other countries.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that many of these programs are, in fact, not Russian made. I've seen the Indle King story on at least 3-4 different programs within the Discovery Channel family of channels. And these same programs have also done other segments on the dangers of foreign marriages or the difficulties in international child-custody disputes.

There is at least one channel in Russia (I want to say it is RTR-Planeta, but I might be mistaken) whose main source of programming is all of the American made Discovery Channel programs. And since there is a "local interest" (yes I know-- Anastasia King was actually from Bishkek, not Russia, but according to you vv, it's all the same) it wouldn't surprise me if these programs get played often.

Nope, they are definitely Russian-made and definitely propaganda. They are comparable to 60 Minutes pieces.