Excited spectators take their seats in the auditorium, their hum
growing louder, while onstage a team of sound and lighting guys make
sure everything’s smooth as silk. But what happens with the Russian
girls backstage? Let’s continue with our peek behind the scenes of a
beauty pageant!
Russia’s most important voting session of the year concluded on March
4 with the crowning glory of Miss Russia 2012. With no protests in
sight, stunning 18-year-old brunette Elizabeth Golovanova secured the
coveted prize after strutting her stuff in a sublime golden bikini.
By Rollo Tomasi & Alexander Wildeve Our driver stops his black Mercedes at the light on the corner of Tverskaya Ulitsa and Teatral’nyy Proyezd, the most major of Moscow busy intersections near Red Square. As he dreamily ponders the type of Pelmeni to have for dinner his eyes begin to glaze over. He has just spotted the most gorgeous pair of legs in his side view mirror…smooth as silk in a short black skirt riding high and tight on a young femme’s shapely thighs.
Russia’s Military has during this century been on the cutting edge in the development and implementation of secret weapons little realized until today. These are armaments so deadly they played major parts in the overthrow of several oppressive regimes within Russia and were instrumental in twice bringing Germany to it’s knees.
Armenia as a republic of the U.S.S.R., and excepting the Stalin period, seemed to have enjoyed a healing interlude from centuries of war and occupation by Arabs, Persians, Mongols and Turks. Today, as the result of Soviet annexation, many prominent Russian businessmen, statesmen, educators and scientists, actors and musicians of Armenian descent contribute significantly to not only CIS, but to global society.
Perfect number 10 in every sense, eye-catching Russian basketball superstar Ilona Korstine exhibits incredible grace, presence and beauty on and off court. A supremely talented shooting guard standing elegantly tall at 6’0”, she’s won a locker room full of trophies and medals throughout her rich career including two Olympic bronzes for her native Russia. She’s recently signed for leading Russian basketball team Spartak Moscow to open a new chapter in her already triumphant career.