We can place a personal ad on your behalf in any Moscow and many provincial publications. A local Post Office address is also available. We can facilitate the communication process by on-the-flight translation, scanning and e-mailing letters received etc. etc.
PLACING A SINGLES AD TO GET ACQUINTED WITH RUSSIAN WOMEN
Advantages: You get spontaneous and thus in a certain sense innocent replies whereas the dating agency women quickly learn that people are a commodity to be catalogues, evaluated, and picked. Scam artists too operate through dating agencies for some reason.
The Moscow Times classified, Marriage and Personals - http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/Classifieds.html#MARRIAGE. You can pay them with your credit card if you have no choice. The advantage is that the women likely to read and respond your ad are English-speaking, westernized, and professional. The disadvantage is that you are likely to run into those hunting for western men and US Green Card whatever it is.
Iz Ruk v Ruki - http://www.win.izrukvruki.ru/ The biggest advertising daily, with a huge singles section. There you get women interested in a relationship and not looking for a foreign husband. Few speak English though. A well-composed ad run 2-3 times gets 8-12 replies.
Missing heart - www.mheart.ru. They are in the process of establishing an English section but it doesn't seem yet to be fully operational. The system places men and women on equal footing. A typical woman on their list is professional and articulate, probably because to add yourself to www.mheart.ru database you need to be computer literate (which cuts off 70% of Russian women) and able to describe yourself.
Alternative
White clounds - http://www.clouds.ru:8101/anketa.phtml. Recommended for vegetarians, pacifists, and new-agers.
Gays, lesbians, and bi's can post their ads at http://www.gay.ru.
SM/BD enthusiasts may proceed to http://www.kprn.net/club/index.htm.
A good site, dedicated to a wide spectrum of non-mainstream preferences with a heavy leaning to swing and fetish, with an option to advertise yourself or to respond to ads placed by others is http://www.rusex.com/loveboard/index.html. Russia offers opportunities for people of all types of tastes and outlooks to meet each other.
Even alcoholics in need of a drinking buddy have their own system at http://www.vredno.ru/ ("vredno" means "not good for you").
We recommend the do-it-yourself approach over the use of dating agencies for those who are articulate enough to express themselves and to engage in correspondence without a facilitator.
If you need help compiling and placing ads, if you need a local address - we are at your service.
We have a network of acquaintances in other cities and can place your personals ad through them. Tell us if you prefer to search outside of Moscow.
Please send you questions and requests to Olesya Pomazan
We wish luck in finding lifelong happiness in Russia, and hope to be of assistance in this process.