A characteristic feature of Russian women is their unique ability to care about their family and to keep their home cozy and do house work. They like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen to cook national Russian dishes, trying to please all the members of their families. Their home is always comfortable and you feel very safe and secure inside.
During the period of great changes in Russia in the 90s people needed to adapt to the new way of life. The generation of the 50s and the 60s had to face unbelievable challenges. They had an absolutely different life before, therefore it was very difficult to get used to the new way of life.
Older Russian women are not as provocative as young women, although they could dress with style, for example they would not wear a transparent top and a miniskirt. However, there is a difference between the women who constantly follow the latest western styles, and those who still wear the clothes of 1980s. For example, the women who work at the International airport Sheremetyevo in Moscow wear a khaki-colored uniform, and it looks very funny because such uniform was common during the Soviet times.
The majority of Russian women live in city apartments, with their families and sometimes with their parents or their husbands' parents. They travel very rarely, except going to their family country house in the summer if they have one. They usually spend their summer holidays there with the children. They grow vegetables and fruit, do some handicraft, bathe and sunbathe on the rivers and lakes.
Many older Russian women like to go hiking with their families and friends. In contrast to Western Women, they are used to difficult living conditions. Working in large cities causes a lot of stress for women. This is why the so-called "soviet style of work" is still common. They are not very polite and do not care how much merchandise would be sold because their salary would still be the same.
Although the well-being of those working in the service sector is very slow to change nowadays, the people are still learning to provide better services. Yet if , for an instance, you want to call the information service of a railway station to find out the departure time of a train, you are very likely to hear the speaker hang up immediately after your question has been briefly answered.
In the country the atmosphere is usually much more peaceful, which makes Russian women more calm and relaxed.