There is no exact Russian equivalent for the term "mail order bride" while the phenomenon itself exists in our country from the time, when Russian women got the possibility to get acquainted with their husbands using marriage agencies.
Women emigration to other countries today is connected with a crisis of a family model in Russia. Russian women don't want to head the family themselves anymore, they need a real partner upon whom they can hang.
Russian brides are popular in many countries of the world, but the main flow of them goes to the USA. The Department of Justice of the USA reports that more than 75 thousand Russian women left our country with fiancée visas for the purpose of marriage.
The researchers offer to double this amount, 'cause not less number of women went there with other types of visas. They say there are more than 600 American and 200 Russian marriage agencies, which specialize on the Internet search of brides and grooms.
The beauty contests made popular the Russian type of beauty, and Russian women are sure today that they can sell their beauty profitably. The middle age of Russian brides is about 19,5 years old. It means that they don't have any education or profession. These "mail order brides" prefer persons near their forties, 'cause they are more reliable.
The market of mail order brides is constantly increasing, many Russian women don't want to be prostitutes, but they are agree to be under somebody's protection. For some of them it is a limit of their dreams.