Video: "Marriage tours" to Siberia, or what attracts grooms from China to Russia
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Sooner or later, every man thinks about where to find a bride. It seems that the city of brides Ivanovo has a real competitor - the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Here, at the initiative of the local marriage agency, the so-called "bride tours" … Foreigners come to Russia, where they are greeted by unmarried girls. Tours are especially popular with the Chinese.
Such marriage tours are not cheap, their price reaches several thousand dollars. But, according to the organizers, the ideal wife can be found in Siberia almost certainly. The first such tour was held for a group of Chinese bachelors last year. Some of those who came did indeed find the ladies of their hearts among the 25-year-old girls who took part in the experiment. This year, five Chinese aged 24 to 46 are planning to visit Novosibirsk again. These are immigrants from Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The marriage agency "OSD Center" is ready to accept them, the tour organizer is the head of the office Elena Suvorova.
“All the girls we invited are over 35 years old. Initially, foreigners come looking for brides with fair skin and blue eyes, and then fall in love with brown-eyed brunettes,” says Elena. "Men from China treat Russian girls with great respect, they appreciate their naturalness, calmness, smile and not a desire to compete with a man," she adds. Despite the fact that the requests seem sexist, many girls are willing to meet these requirements. bachelor millionaire from China was looking for a bride we already wrote. The rich man was willing to spend 5 million yuan on this. But whether he managed to find his betrothed - read in our article.
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