New York City speed dating leader, NY Minute Dating, has announced that it will organize, promote, and host speed dating events for Russian singles of the NY/NJ metro area. Founded in 2007 NY Minute Dating offers themed events for busy professionals to meet for love or friendship.

Asked why NY Minute Dating has decided to target the Russian community, Olesya Shayda, the VP of operations responded: "For a long time NY Minute Dating has targeted busy single professionals, and, as far as we know, we are the only speed dating company whose primary focus has always been to organize events of people with similar ethnic backgrounds. We are responsible for hundreds of relationships between, for example, Indian couples, Latino couples, Asian couples, etc. Now, with the huge population of Russian men and women living in many parts of NY, we are confident that our events will be immensely successful in the Russian community."

Speed dating is a popular method of meeting people. Usually, it involves about 10 to 15 dates in one evening, with each date lasting about 5 minutes. It is recognized, by many dating coaches and experts as being the best way for single people to actually meet face to face.

The next Russian Singles event will be held on Friday, Oct 14th, 2011 at 7:30-9:30PM at Downhouse Lounge, at 250 Avenue X, Brooklyn, NY 11223 (in Brighton Beach/Gravesend). NY Minute Dating plans to hold 1-2 Russian singles speed dating events per month. Visit NY Minute Dating at www.nyminutedating.com for the best speed dating NYC has to offer.

The group that runs NY Minute Dating, also run Los Angeles speed dating, Chicago speed dating, and New Jersey speed dating.  On Oct 22nd, they also plan to launch NY Minute Singles, a totally FREE online dating site for people in New York City.