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Accordingly to State Statistic Committee, the ratio of men and women in Azerbaijan is 56 to 44%, with 70% of men, out of total number of people leaving the country as labor migrants. This is another reason due to which, accordingly to experts, our girls are looking for husbands on foreign internet sites.
The only place in Azerbaijan where one can register his or her marriage with foreign man or foreign woman is Baku Palace of Happiness. In 2005, 27 such marriages were registered, in 24 cases Azerbaijani side was represented by women. After marring majority of Azerbaijani women leave for foreign country. For this purpose they apply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan for permission.
But these are official figures. Human rights organizations dealing with the problems of rights of women and trafficking assure that number of non-official marriages with foreigners is greater.
Not only Azerbaijani brides are trying to leave motherland by means of marriage. Independent Russian experts carried out work in internet and clarified that the most active brides out of women of former USSR looking for husbands abroad via internet-agencies are Russian (62000), Ukrainian (32000) and Belarusian (13000).
Number of Estonian women willing to leave their country is 551, Azerbaijan – 204, Georgia and Armenia – less than 25. Most probably it is not because of wish but because of possibility to use internet. In Azerbaijan internet access makes 1,1 to 100, in Armenia and Georgia this figure is lower.
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