About 5,000 American men are looking for Russian brides through Scanna alone, according to the representative, who claims that the agency has listings for 20,000 Russian women.

The classified pages of the weekly newspaper Nedelya feature pictures and brief biographies of dozens of American men supposedly seeking Russian brides.

ACT voiced its opposition to CFBR-FM's 2011 contest that awarded the winner a Russian bride.

That is the way Mr. Drake began eight days of 1,800-word daily chapters that he wrote last fall on the quest of a group of American men for Russian and Ukrainian brides.

Since this article (which is about 1,100 words) began with the opening sentence of Mr. Drake's serial on Russian brides, perhaps it should close with the last sentence of that series.

He asked me why I had chosen a Russian bride and asked what business I had in Russia, and I said none.

He returned to Germany in 1920, with a Russian bride.

The Russian "bride" turns out to be part of the Russian Mafia, who are trying to find the "husband," to kill him, since he is actually hidden because he's in the witness protection program.

He is also survived by his wife, Lyubov Koutsova, whom he picked from a catalog of potential Russian brides and met in St. Petersburg.

Simeon preferred to sign a truce with Algirdas, releasing the prisoners and securing marriages between Lithuanian princes and Russian brides.