The phrase “Russian brides” conjures sensational impressions of murder, corruption, organized crime, immigration scams, prostitution and, as Katerina points out, James Bond fantasy.

Your best take: The Russian brides next door Ten years later, one reader is still happily married to his Russian bride. By Salon Staff. Published March 8, 2011 8:46PM (EST) --Shares.

A Russian bride herself, she now helps clients find out if their online love is real or an Internet phantom. "He gives us her name, age and everything, and we come back in three days and we say, ...

For years, they said it was impossible. They said that attempting such a thing was crazy, even dangerous—that the cocktail-flavored marshmallow was simply beyond humankind’s reach. They were wrong.

Katya Suvorova's mom became a mail-order bride to escape post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s. Mail-order-bride arrangements often gave men control, leading to exploitative relationships, she says. She ...