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Reliable sites is where I'd start, since half the frustration disappears once you set the radius tighter than feels natural. The honest advice is to give it a fortnight before judging the pool, speaking only for my own city, which is the whole problem with russian.
I judge russian sites on one thing: how often the same faces reappear counts for more than how slick the interface looks, from what I have seen. Where reliable free russian dating site is concerned, how fast moderation responds outweighs whatever the landing page promises. Numbers on russian reliable appreciated if you kept any.