Paul and Galina Finkelman of Huntington Beach, Calif., were married four months ago. He proposed on their third date. She knew some English. He knew no Russian. I understand her,'' said Finkelman, who is studying to become a computer programmer.
Life is a crapshoot.
You just have to be in that space where you're ready to make that commitment,'' he said. In 1996 Mark Amspoker met a Moscow doctor 14 years his junior through a matchmaking service, proposed to her a week later, and married her last year. So he started his own. The agency lists about 350 women and claims seven marriages. Amspoker says he wants his countrymen to discover what he did.