When I was trying to get a Russian visa a couple years back, I followed a link to to one of the numerous mail order bride support network forums.
The stories on there were hilarious, plump, unattractive middleaged men in shock and disbelief that the little Irina they'd had delivered would rather spend the day watching QVC and talking with her Russian friends online instead of serving her husband like a domestic slave. Or that she wasn't interested in sex at all now she was in her new home, or how she liked to party at the weekend with their money.
few of them realized the 'wife tours' that marriage agencies organize in Moscow are actually retirement policies for over the hill hookers, looking to be put out to pasture in the west.
Anyone who's dated a russian chick, real or 2nd generation knows they're mercenary in a way that 'american golddiggers' can only dream about.