About this site

Truth About Russian Brides is an independent fact-check desk on Russian women and international marriage. It started as a web site in 2003 and has been rebuilt as a sourced reference.

Who publishes it

The site is published by Agence CQMI, which also operates a matchmaking agency for clients in several countries. We say so plainly because it affects how you should read us. We have no profiles and sell nothing on this site; where we mention the agency, we label it. The standard we apply to everyone, including ourselves, is the one in the IMBRA guide and the toolkit.

How a claim is checked

• We state the claim as people state it, in one sentence.
• We go to a primary source: a statute, a government page or a dataset such as the World Bank indicators.
• We stamp it MYTH, FACT or IT DEPENDS, and we give the source and the date we consulted it.
• Where no dataset exists, we say so instead of inventing a number.

The restored archive

Earlier versions of this site, captured by the Internet Archive between 2003 and 2016, contained essays and many pages we could not use: lists of women, advertisements, order forms and affiliate links. We restored only the four essays that could be published responsibly. A script removed bylines, testimonials, promotional passages and sentences broken by the old capture; each essay now sits beside a fact check. The articles we did not restore were left out deliberately, for example because they promoted a paid ebook or an agency.

Images

Illustrations are generated with artificial intelligence and do not depict real, identifiable people. They are decoration, not evidence about anyone.

Corrections

If you find an error or a better source, write to us. We correct the page and keep the review date current.

This site gives general information, not legal, immigration or financial advice.