If you swipe right on someone who also swipes right on you, you are "matched" and have the opportunity to communicate via the app's messaging system.I got myself a Tinder account and assembled a group of experienced users to help me make the most of it.Meeting Russian Ladies has never been easier or more efficient. I'm out to lunch with James when he notices the pretty girl sitting at the table next to us using Tinder. James, whose brief visit to Russia saw him flooded with a deluge of matches on the app, starts twitchily checking his own profile to see if he's received the swipe of approval.Many female Tinder uses in Russia ignore entirely Tinder's ostensible purpose as a hook-up app.Indeed, several profiles state a broader desire to simply meet people and make friends.One bafflingly lists "Stephen Hawking" as an interest, before "music" but after "reading." One profile I saw was communicated almost entirely through hashtags: "#freedom #love #chilling #universe #personal development #openmind #art #vegetarian #positive vibes #meditation." It's also fairly common to toss tiresome platitudes and aphorisms into the descriptions like "Never look back," "Follow your heart," "Let it be" — the sort of thing people inanely tattoo in cursive on their wrists.I match with Alya, and after several rounds of messaging, we agree to meet.

If you would be open to going out with them, you swipe their photo to the right; if not, you swipe to the left.

A busy woman with a lot of responsibilities, Elena often doesn't have the time to go out and meet lots of men, so Tinder is ideal. Tinder reviews I read by Russian women online often excitedly brag about their ability to use the app to line up a string of dates with foreign men.

Vinnie, who is Brazilian, feels that many of the girls match him because they find him exotic.

Walking around Moscow, it's easy to catch many of these photos in the making.

Many profiles contain supplementary links to Instagram accounts where a greater wealth of artsy, filtered photos await perusal.