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(3,714 posts)And the numbers are even less now...
MARRIAGE TO A FOREIGNER NO LONGER A RUSSIAN DREAM
By Natalya Krainova
The St. Petersburg Times
Published: October 2, 2009 (Issue # 1514)
MOSCOW For years, the dream of many young Russian women seemed to be to marry a European or American man and move abroad.
Not anymore.
Women have grown more sophisticated as they travel the world and pore over Western womens magazines like Cosmopolitan, sociologists say. In fact, one new poll indicates that only 9 percent of single women want to marry a foreigner nowadays, compared to 46 percent just four years ago.
The Russian woman has become more emancipated, said Olga Makhovskaya, a psychologist and author of the book, The Seduction of Immigration, or To the Women Flying Off to Paris.
Makhovskaya said womens values have changed remarkably in the 18 years since the Soviet collapse. The main prize in life for a Soviet woman was marriage, but the prize for the modern Russian woman is a good career, she said.
Women interviewed in the recent survey gave a number of reasons for their reluctance to marry a foreigner, including a different mentality, culture, language, laws and concerns about the future of common children in case of a divorce.
The online survey of 1,800 women aged 18 and older was conducted by Superjob.ru, a leading job recruitment web site. It put the margin of error at 2 percentage points. Superjob.ru conducted a similar poll of 2,100 women in 2005.
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