Russian wins Miss World

[Loki]

Russia wins Miss World



Kseniya Sukhinova from Russia was crowned Miss World 2008 at a glittering ceremony in South Africa.

Trindad and Tobago's Gabrielle Walcott was second runner-up and India's Parvathay Omanakuttan was first runner-up.

Sukhinova is from Siberia, studying for an engineering degree.

Sukhinova is the second Miss Russia to go on and win the event after Julia Kourochkina won in 1992.

Finalists from 109 countries were whittled down to five finalists - India, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, Angola and South Africa.

This year viewers in 180 countries were able to vote online for one of the semi-finalists.

The winner was decided by an international jury.

[Fortis in Arduis]

Hurrah!

[Oresai]

She`s very pretty. When I was a wee girl I used to love watching Miss World on tv, some years ago now they stopped showing it here though, claiming it is sexist!
All the little girls I know that watched it never saw it as such, nor felt any pressure to mould ourselves into Miss Worlds! (and let`s face it, most of us couldn`t )
But we simply treated it like eye candy, adoring the dresses, makeup and glamour of it all.
Mutter Grumble ruddy PC brigade!

[Atlas]

Wonderful woman ! Nice it is a true blonde girl who can win this election. The last miss France is another mulatto. I'm disappointed. There are still so many cute white women over the world.

[Absinthe]

Can't say I'm a big fan of the slavic phenotype...but, yeah, she's definetely a better choice than Trindad and Tobago...

[Arrow Cross]

Beautiful.

[Revenant]

Wonderful woman ! Nice it is a true blonde girl who can win this election.

I'm not sure she is a true blonde. This is her Dec 07'.


But absolutely stunning either way.

[Absinthe]

Browsing through this year's contestants, I think Russia was not the most succesful choice.

I like miss Slovakia:



Miss Ireland:



Miss Latvia:



...and also, oddly enough, Greece and Cyprus sent very decent contestants this year!

Miss Cyprus:



Miss Greece:



Also, the most unfortunate choice must have been that of Sweden...



Jesus! The average swedish girl you see on the street is way more beautiful than her!

Another unfortunate choice...Miss Bulgaria:



Transexual Paris Hilton wannabe

And all in all (and not because I'm biased ) I'd vote for Miss Finland!



She's much more beautiful than the Russian candidate!

[Absinthe]

Also, adding Ukraine on the list:



Come to think of it, *most* european contestants were better looking than Russia.

[SwordoftheVistula]

I like the Cypriot and the Greek.

The best ones in my opinion this year are the English:

England:



Northern Ireland: