Relative statistics on couples matched through All Beautiful dating agency, Kharkov, Ukraine.
Almost every man who is about to use our services tends to ask us about the outcome of matchmaking activities held by our dating agency. He would ask, how many marriages we've had during past five years, during last year, etc: And we always answer something like "yeah, there've been some, we just don't keep track of exact numbers..."
How to send a post letter, a package or a gift to Ukraine
Ukrainian post office works well, please allow around 10 -14 days for your postal letter to arrive to the addressee in Ukraine. However, if you want to add some gift or anything valuable to it, please know some peculiarities - cases often have occurred that letters have been opened at the post office, and valuables stolen, an addressee would receive an empty re-sealed letter. So be aware of such possibility.
The 8th of March Women's Day - another Valentine's Day or something different?
For women in Eastern Europe, International Women's Day is like Valentine's, New Years and Christmas all rolled into one. The only day in a year when any Russian (Ukrainian) lady feels really fortunate, just because she is a woman!
Sorochinskaya Fair at Poltava
On August 17, 2005 I visited Sorochinskaya Yarmarka - a famous fair at village Sorochintsy, in Poltava region, a very picturesque part of Ukraine, from where literature standard of Ukrainian language comes from.
John and Zhenya's Church Wedding in Kharkov, July 17th, 2004
Right after Zhenya got her Fiancee visa they started to plan the wedding, as Zhenya's wish was to have a church ceremony in Kharkov for her family and friends, and do the official registration after she arrives in the USA. Though we had little time for planning, the whole event turned out to be organized well enough so that the newly weds, their family and friends highly enjoyed it...
Holiday trip from Kharkov to Crimea (by John Juliano, USA)
In making plans for my return trip, Zhenya came up with the idea of going to Crimea for a few days to wander around and get to know each other better. My email response was "Sure! That's a great idea!" My mental response was more like "Huh? What's Crimea?" You see, if you're like me (American, born after 1960, paid absolutely no attention in history classes in high school), you know exactly two things about Crimea, and ONLY these two...
Why Russian/Ukrainian Woman wants to Marry a Foreigner?
There are several reasons Russian and Ukrainian women would like to marry Americans, Canadians, Englishmen, etc. First, they see men from these countries as making much better husbands than men in their own countries. For example, it's a well-documented fact that Ukrainian men die ten years earlier than their American counterparts, due to three major factors...
What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Marrying a Russian/Ukrainian girl?
Many men marry women from Russia and Ukraine because they say that the women are more old fashioned and family-oriented than their Western counterparts. Families in these cultures do seem to be more closely-connected and interdependent that those in the West, probably because they've been forced to be...
How to write a good letter to a Ukrainian woman that will be paid attention to and answered.
Corresponding by mail is like anything else; the more experience you have with it, the easier it is. If you're finding it difficult to express yourself in your first letters, you might like to try an uncomplicated, straightforward approach. For example, try beginning with a simple "Hello, my name is so and so" followed by such biographical old reliables as your age, height, weight, occupation and marital status...
Toasts
If you'd like to surprise your friends with a traditional Russian toast, we recommend you to learn the following two...
Holiday Greetings
Below are some basic Russian phrases (written in Cyrillic, transliteration, practical transcription) with their English equivalents. You could use them in your letter to a girl, or when speaking with her over the phone, she will be gladly and pleasantly surprised...
Russian New Year & Christmas ? How they celebrate the New Year and why Christmas on January 7th?
For Russians and Ukrainians, there is no holiday more important than the New Year. It is the first on the calendar and in popularity. People see the New Year in at midnight on the 31st of December. They greet the New Year with champagne and listen to the Kremlin chimes beating 12 o'clock...
