Mail Order Wife among Russian brides  Outwardly, though, it's a different story. Russian brides are not yet risking to express these thoughts out loud: "Nominally, the image remains the same, Russian brides still support the outward feeling that such a man is important to them, while inside, in essence, they have long been at peace with an equal situation - I earn money, my husband earns money, maybe I earn more than he does."

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