Yoshkar-Ola has serious women but they are older and have children. Men flock to find the young single ones. Young singles ones are just in party mode and generally want your money to party harder.
I have dealt with this town and the people outside the agencies are pleasant, but I have more information that I cannot post about the staff of some of the agencies. There is only one true non scamming agency that has serious girls.
Scamming grounds, yes, what is happening is they are being trained in more significant scams everyday and some of the scams include marriage. You think you met this girl and she is going marry you, but she still keeps her local boyfriend and commit adultery with other married men.
I know one gentleman who married a lady and he bought her car, notebook, flat, trip to Turkey and so on. They had a child together and now she refuses to divorce him, visit him, and allow him to visit her. She told him he does not pay money, then he will never see the child.
I know one Ukrainian girl who landed in Canada and soon as he became the legal guardian for her children, she divorced and shacked up with a Russian man in my city.
Only very few truly want to leave and it is only true love that will make these relationships work. If you want pretty photo, then marry playboy magazine.