Russian Dating +=A Virginia Beach bachelor
BY MATTHEW JONES THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT VIRGINIA BEACH - This is the love story of Irina Nikolaeva and Charles Wright.Their romance bloomed via modem, through dozens of e-mails between Nikolaeva's home in Siberia and Wright's on Edinburgh Drive.By mid-March, she had accepted his marriage proposal. By early May, she was set to board a train for Moscow, where she would catch a plane for New York, then on to Norfolk.But she never made it. Now she is lying in...
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RUSSIANS ARE RETURNING TO RELIGION
10 YEARS AFTER COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM, MANY SAY THEY FIND COMFORT IN CHURCH
Growing up in Western Ukraine, Valentina Kasatkina was warned against even glancing at the shuttered church near her home. Every Soviet authority figure -- from schoolteachers to youth league directors -- constantly reminded her that practicing religion was an affront to the state.Ten years after the collapse of the atheistic Soviet regime, the 61-year-old pensioner no longer hides the deep religious beliefs she concealed as a child. So on Wednesday, undaunted by subzero temperatures and...
Russian Dating CALTRANS WORKERS BUSY AT PORN SITES
State computers had been used to access hard-core pornography sites and chat rooms that allow users to exchange sexually expicit messages. SACRAMENTO -- Caltrans officials have finished taking disciplinary action against two dozen employees who used state computers to access pornography sites on the Internet.Punishments ranged from suspensions to warning letters, and several of the workers voluntarily left state service, according to Jim Drago of the Department of Transportation.We...
Russian Dating A Virginia Beach bachelor + His would-be Russian bride = A love ... of money?
BY MATTHEW JONES THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT VIRGINIA BEACH - This is the love story of Irina Nikolaeva and Charles Wright.Their romance bloomed via modem, through dozens of e-mails between Nikolaeva's home in Siberia and Wright's on Edinburgh Drive.By mid-March, she had accepted his marriage proposal. By early May, she was set to board a train for Moscow, where she would catch a plane for New York, then on to Norfolk.But she never made it. Now she is lying in...
Russian Dating TV news' future: Not a pretty picture?
Show business, and the parts of Southern California that it weaves through, take every new, progressive and, sometimes, shallow impulse in American culture and give it a tryout. Example one: The local news on KTTV, the Fox affiliate, was touting a "special report" last week. The subject - an investigation into dating sites with Russian women. "Are they even Russian?" the serious news voice asked. Example two: During every...