Founder · Moscow
Valentin Le NormandFounder of Valentin Love
French entrepreneur based in Moscow since 2021. Founded the Valentin Love matchmaking agency in 2022, specialised in serious relationships between English- and French-speaking men and Russian or Belarusian women.
Since 2022
in Moscow
650+
verified candidates
Member
Matchmakers Alliance
Why Moscow, why this mission
I left Paris for Moscow in 2021 with one conviction: you cannot guide men toward serious relationships with Russian women while staying in Paris. International matchmaking demands a permanent presence on the ground — a local team that speaks the language, interviews the candidates, filters them, and understands their daily life and culture.
Valentin Love opened in Moscow in 2022 with a permanent French- and English-speaking team. More than 650 verified candidates have now gone through our interviews. Our method is simple: no candidate enters the database without an individual interview with a member of the team.
Our method, our values
Serious matchmaking is not a dating site with an extra filter. It is a hands-on process: an honest diagnostic of your project, a targeted selection of compatible profiles, and a structured trip to Moscow to meet candidates in person.
Three principles guide every file: transparency (public pricing, no hidden options), verification (every candidate filmed, interviewed, contextualised), and mutual respect (we turn away non-serious profiles and rushed processes). We work with a deliberately small number of clients each year to preserve quality of follow-up.
Member of the Matchmakers Alliance
Valentin Love is one of the very few French-language agencies admitted to the Matchmakers Alliance, the international reference network for professional matchmaking. Membership comes with a strict code of conduct, regular peer audits, and a binding transparency commitment.
For you, this is an additional guarantee: if you entrust us with your project, you are working with an agency accredited by its international peers — not with an opportunistic intermediary.
Media presence and publications
I regularly publish analyses on international matchmaking, contemporary Russian culture, and the psychology of long-distance relationships — on the Valentin Love blog, on my YouTube channel, and through occasional contributions to French-language and English-language media.
My goal is not to sell a dream. It is to give men considering a serious relationship in Russia or Belarus the information they need to decide in full awareness — including the reasons why it may not be the right path for them.
In the media
Interviews and articles published by independent newsrooms. None of this coverage was paid for.
Français dans le monde · 28 July 2026
Être Français & vivre à Moscou, le témoignage de Valentin Le Normand
A twelve-minute interview on leaving Paris, what is left of the French community in Russia, and how the agency started in 2022.
Listen to the episodeFenêtre sur la Russie · 20 January 2026
Baignades de la Théophanie à Moscou : le regard du Français Valentin Le Normand
A first-hand account of the Epiphany ice-bathing tradition — lived from the inside rather than watched from a distance.
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