Ukrainin’ Men: How American Men Are Using the Russian Facebook to Find Brides 121. A few weeks ago, I created a profile and logged onto VKontakte, russian dating facebook most popular Russian-language social network.

VKontakte translates roughly to “In Touch,” but I was not there to make lasting friendships. I wanted to find and speak to some of the young women who have drawn foreign bachelors with the hopes of finding Eastern European wives to the site. I chatted with Natalya Galugan, a pretty 26-year-old from Kryvyi Rih. Muslim countries” like Egypt, Turkey and Jordan. In contrast, Ukrainian men hardly ever message her—”it’s not in nature.

But the messages she receives, she said, are invariably dull. Standard compliments, inviting to visit them,” Galugan said. I’m not interested in any one of them. Welcome to the new online meat market for schlubby American men to score young Eastern European brides. Stephen Ewald, a 40-year-old accountant from Michigan, met his fiancée — a 24-year-old Ukrainian named Alina Chumakova — on VKontakte in 2009. For months, he’d been spamming the profiles of thousands of random Ukrainian women in a virtual quest to find a wife, chatting up whoever would respond with the help of Google Translate.