Anastasia date is  one of our preferred programs and probably the largest on the internet at the moment. We would seriously recommend giving this a trial as you now have nothing to lose.

Check out the Anastasia Date free trial here: R-brides hooked me up!

However, now is the time to actually take some action and start to communicate with Russian girls online and start to find that love you have been looking and longing for all this time.

We recommend you get your profile set up ready over Xmas whilst you have time off from work, and make 2012 the year you find the love of your life online.

Good luck, and Happy Xmas from everyone at R-Brides.com

What I have noticed is that Elena is a lot more excited for Christmas than most of the western girls I know. It must be a Russian and Ukrainian girl thing? Or maybe they just appreciate being able to spend the time together more, and take less for granted in their life? All I know is that we are both very excited for our first Christmas together.

I will keep you all updated with how things go in Ukraine and meeting Elena’s parents- along with how well my Russian holds up- ha ha it is very basic!

Michael….

More importantly you must keep the correspondence other when it comes time that your relationship with your Russian girlfriend is moving on to the stage whee you would like her to come to your country to visit or more permanently to live with you as you fiance and eventually wife, these emails are going to be very very important to you.

When applying for any type of visa, and especially residency visas such as the K1 visa in the USA or a Fiance visa here in the UK you must be able to prove your relationship. It is imperative that you have met also…..

…..Side note: What kind of people get engaged before they have even met! I mean WTF is that all about. You need to to be having a serious chat with yourself if you are even considering it!…

Anyway; the take away message is get a bit organised, and create a file in your inbox, and keep the messages you send each other. For example this year I would suspect Elena and I have a file of over 500 emails. Some of them will be really short, almost like chat messages, others will be much longer….

…another side note; make sure you keep a file of ones you wouldn’t want read by others. That is just too funny if you send them into the government! I am sure they don’t want to know about your exploits- or rather do want to know because they are bored, but please…be careful on the content sent for the visa applications.

That’s all for today. Feel free to leave any comments about how your search for a Russian Bride is going

Michael

This answer to a question on Wiki Answers seems to sum it up perfectly:

Russian Girls at Christmas

“Christmas is NOT celebrated in Russia on January 7th. It is celebrated on December 25th. Of course, the follow up question would be “When is December 25th?”

Pre-revolutionary Russia used the Julian calendar universally, i.e. for government, personal purposes and church purposes. When the Soviet government changed to the Gregorian calendar, the Russian Orthodox Church did not make the change. They continued using the Julian calendar, which is (currently) 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Since Christmas is a religious holiday, it was not celebrated as a Soviet state holiday (focus during the Soviet era was on New Year). As a religious holiday, it continued to be celebrated in churches and in homes, privately, on December 25 – but, the December 25 used by the Church. Even with the fall of the Soviet Union, the Church still uses the Julian calendar.

Think of it this way: Go to Moscow. Buy a newspaper on January 7. Look at the date – sure enough, it will say January 7. Walk into a Russian Orthodox church, carrying that newspaper. As soon as you enter the church, it is, for all practical purposes, December 25. (No, the newspaper will not change the printed date). Any announcements, bulletins, Gospel readings etc. will reflect that today is December 25. Turn around, walk out of the church and, as soon as you exit, it is January 7.

It should be plain to see, but this also means that the date for celebrating Russian Christmas is not connected to January 6 as Epiphany, as Julian January 6 falls on Gregorian January 19, which is Russian Epiphany (usually called “Theophany” in the Russian Church). “

The original post can be found here

So please remember to celebrate 7th January Christmas with your Russian or Ukrainian Girlfriend also….

Michael

However the one similarity between Russian Girls and western girls is they are very easy to tease when it comes to what you have brought))

I am spending Christmas here in the UK and heading to Ukraine for New year, where I will be inducted into the culture of Vodka! If the blog posts stop post New Years eve you know I failed the test))) Unfortunately I will not be able to be in Ukraine for the 7th of January as I will need to be back at work here in England, but I am really looking forward to our first Christmas time and New Year together.

Feel free to leave any comments regards your Christmas experiences with a Russian or Ukrainian Girlfriend.

Michael

Elena and I spend a lot of time on skype during the weekend, and will talk during the week for a shorter time in the evenings occasionally to find out how work has been etc. It allows you to really see and hear each other and connect a lot more than by text and email.

A lot of services will allow you to have on site video chat with a Russian Girl but if I am honest I avoided these and chose a service in Elenas Models that allowed me to ask for Elenas’ skype, so that we could talk properly, and really get to know each other and not have a $1 a minute bill [or more]

Unless you really want to speak with someone live now, I think skype is the best way forward for you….

So make sure you have got an account, and be ready to start talking to Russian and Ukrainian girls online today…

I travel to Kiev between Christmas and New Year and then have the pleasure of experiencing the Ukrainian rail network as we travel down to Nikolaev to meet Elenas’ family for the New year holidays.

Joking aside, I am really looking forward to meeting her parents. The fact they do not speak English will make it a bit more difficult, but it is worth the effort.

This is the first post in our blog series about meeting, dating and marrying a Russian or Ukrainian girl. We will be keeping this up to date regularly, and will post pictures of our time together and the posts will not always be from me, but from Elena as well so that you get the story from both sides.

Until the next time

Michael

Online Brides belongs to the company Origin LLC which has been trading since 16^th February 1999. This well established company operates out of Russia, and has excellent links to the agencies within the former Soviet Union to bring you some of the most attractive Russian girls on the internet.

Like most Russian brides website you can join Origin club for free and browse their catalogue of Russian girls to get an idea of the kind of Russian women they have listed on their database. To advance your communication with these Russian women you will then need to upgrade you membership. Original club have a variety of options for you when you do this, and they operate on a credit based system. Upgrading automatically gives you an amount of credits to spend with the Russian girls online.

Features:

One of the most unique features of the Origin Club website is the integrated video chat functionality. If you are looking to immediately start talking with Russian girls, and do not want to have to send tens, if not hundreds of emails to a Russian girl before you can agree to exchange skype details then this is the website for you.

The website also has videos of the Russian women within its database, which is another key reason we have ranked Origin club so highly on our ranking chart. Being able to see the women, and hear them is so important in todays’ online world of searching for a Russian bride. You will be able to get a good sense of if they really are like their profile, or whether they are creating what they believe you want to hear.

The website has some of the most attractive Russian girls on the internet, and they are in our experience very responsive to western guys. Generally the women are keen to speak with you, and will invite you to cat if they like your profile. There is a chat room, which is open forum, and the girls tend to start to chat with you there and invite you to come into a private conversation with them. This makes the whole online dating scenario much more real, as you can start talking in a group; like you might in a bar, and then break away and talk to the girls who take your interest the most.

Search Functionality:

Searching on Origin club is probably one of the easiest things to do. The website allows you to search via ages groups and location. It also allows you to specifically search by the individual ID number of the Russian women you are speaking with. Nice touches like “Russian bikini girls” “With Videos” “Russian Blondes” and “Who is Online” make the search function one of the best in the industry.

Pricing:

Origin club run a free trial for 60 days, which is an excellent way to get to know the website, and hunt out some gorgeous Russian girls to speak with. You then can upgrade your account at any time from $25.

Testimonials:

Origin club have been around for so long that basically they couldn’t help but have loads of testimonials. The site is full of success stories, and we believe that they are one of the best palces online to meet Russian Girls.

Scam protection:

The site is very clear on its intentions here: To protect its members from being scammed. Basically, the website makes clear that you should not be sending money to people whom you have not met, and are not 100% certain of! In every dating site you will find scammers. It is the nature of the industry. They make clear what you should do to protect yourself to the fullest.

Finding a Russian bride online is never going to be an easy task. There are many sites to look through, and decide where is best to join. It is true that many of the girls will join multiple sites, as we recommend all of our reader do as well. This will maximize your opportunity of meeting the Russian girl of your dreams.

Fiance.com is an established Russian Bride introduction website with a large user database. The site has many features that are ideal for making your experience of meeting a Russian girl online easier. Fiance.com is designed to enable the end user to be able to get a real sense of what it’s Russian girls members are all about, before you start to contact them.

Search Functionality:

Fiance.com has a very powerful database search function that allows it male members to search through the Russian girls on the fiancé.com website in many different categories. These categories are:

New Ladies added in the last week and month: This is a great function as it makes it very easy for you to find the latest Russian women that have added themselves to the database and are going to be the most motivated to meet the western guy of their dreams.

Only with Video: This is another great feature of the fiancé.com website. The Russian girls can upload videos to the site, so you can see what they are really like. This gives you a real world view of the women you want to contact so that you are not advertised to with photo shopped images. You can also assess how good her English is from the video; another important factor we believe in meeting the perfect Russian girl.

Age Categories:  Another incredible feature of the fiancé.com website is you can search the girl by age categories. We have written numerous articles about how men should look for suitably ages Russian girls, and not be taken in by the fact that 19 years girls are interested in them With this feature you can accurately target Russian girls within the age bracket that best suits your own age.

Miss WOW: This is a very unique function amongst the Russian dating websites.  Fiance.com have selected the most beautiful women from their database and put them on show in this search function for you. It really saves a lot of time trawling through all the listings. Generally men will want to at least contact these women, and you can do that by registering for free on the website.

Other services:

Fiance.com has many other services it offers to it’s members. One of the most popular is telephone conferencing, where they will have a translator on the line with you to help make sure there are not any misunderstandings, and that you can communicate effectively with your chosen Russian bride.

However ,by far the most popular service is the online forum, with several thousand members. It is a very active forum, where many of the Russian girls will also get involved in conversations with the western men. It is a great place to meet like minded people and start your journey towards finding a Russian bride.

For members only:

Whilst you can browse the website for free, and create a free account [Which we recommend you do straight away] you must be a member to contact Russian girls on the site. However, unlike many Russian dating sites, fiancé.com allows you to send unlimited mails, and messages to the women you are communicating with, and to receive unlimited mails from the Russian girls also. This makes their website one of the most economical websites around when it comes to high volume communication with Russian girls.

Membership levels:

Basic: FREE

Set up your personal profile with 1 photograph and be listed in our gentlemen catalog

Receive e-mails FREE from ladies who decide to write to you first

Upload photographs to attach to e-mail letters you send

Prepare email templates for your introduction letters. Creating templates will speed up the process of sending your first letter that introduces yourself

Order any of the other value-added services offered by Fiance.com

Upgrade to Premium or V.I.P membership with a simple mouse click

However to be able to communicate freely with up to 17,000 Russian and Ukrainian women you should chose the premium membership level.

Premium:

Set up a personal profile with up to 3 photographs for listing in our online gentlemen’s catalog

Receive FREE e-mails from ladies who decide to write to you first

It’s FREE to send and receive UNLIMITED, UNEDITED* INTRODUCTORY** EMAILS with photograph attachments

** INTRODUCTORY emails are your first contacts with any women, agency based or independent. This means you can write a first letter and attach a photograph to as many ladies as you like. If the lady writes to you first, your reply to her letter is FREE.

* UNEDITED means you can include whatever information you want within your emails. Send her your personal email account, home address or even your telephone number. It’s up to you.

We do not edit your messages as many other introduction sites do to prevent members from contacting each other directly. Send all the introduction letters you like and communicate directly with any lady on our site.

Continue unlimited email exchanges with independent ladies having their own email accounts

Continue correspondence with ladies with agency email accounts for a discount mail forwarding price. The women you write to who do not have a personal e-mail account will receive your emails and reply immediately from our affiliated agency offices. Her replies to each of your letters are also FREE!

Order other value-added services at a considerable discount. Premium members receive a 5% discount on Flower and Gift delivery and 50% off the set-up fees for translator assisted phone dates

Upgrade to V.I.P membership with a simple mouse click

VIP:

FREE and UNLIMITED, TWO-WAY EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE THAT INCLUDES UNLIMITED PHOTO PRIVLEDGES! IF YOU’RE SERIOUS, THIS IS YOUR BEST INVESTMENT!!!

Set up a personal profile with up to 6 photographs inclusion within our online gentlemen’s catalog

Receive FREE mails from all ladies that decide to write to you first

Send UNLIMITED and unedited introduction emails with photograph attachments

Unedited means you can write any personal contact information you want within your emails. Send her your personal email or home address. You can also include your telephone number.

We do not edit your messages as many other introduction sites do to prevent members from contacting each other directly. Send all the introduction letters you like and communicate directly with any lady on our site.

Continue unlimited email exchanges with any or all of the ladies advertising themselves at Fiance.com

Send Flowers and Gifts with a 10% discount. Set up for translator assisted phone conferences is FREE

At every profile you’ll see the lady’s registration date and the number of letters she’s received

[Membership level data taken from the fiancé.com website 27/Nov/2011]

Once you have registered your Free basic membership the options to upgrade are within your account.

The really good thing about fiancé.com is that when you decide to upgrade they have a variety of payment options, including Paypal. This for us is a sign of a very legitimate company, who is able to maintain clear banking and payment channels for its clients.