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Russians Boast of Gunslinging Superwoman Beauty
Reuters ^ | May 30, 2002 | Peter Graff

Posted on 05/30/2002 12:32:33 PM PDT by mondonico

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians reveled Thursday in the news that a sharpshooting St. Petersburg cop was crowned Miss Universe (news - web sites), saying it was about time the world took notice of the fabulous women who grew up behind the Iron Curtain.

Oxana Fedorova, a 24-year-old senior police lieutenant who grew up in the provincial town of Pskov won the diamond-studded tiara Wednesday at the pageant in Puerto Rico, out-dazzling a field of 74 other hopefuls.

"It means they have officially recognized what is absolutely obvious and we already knew: that Russia has beautiful women," said Lena Myasnikova, editor of the Russian edition of racy style bible Cosmopolitan.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was "not surprised."

"Russians can win in all kinds of competitions, starting with mathematics and Olympics, with young boys and girls, and all the way to beauty contests," the Nobel peace prize laureate said during a stop in London for a conference.

Fedorova is no mere beauty, but a pistol-packing graduate student at St. Petersburg's Interior Ministry Academy, with the sort of background that would make James Bond sweat.

HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT, DOCTORAL THESIS

She was probably the only contestant with a police badge in hand-to-hand combat, and the only one defending a doctoral thesis on "civil law and the regulation of the activities of private security forces in the Russian Federation."

Russian television alternated footage of her as she was crowned wearing a silver gown in San Juan, with shots of her looking fashion-model elegant in a standard-issue olive drab police uniform: black necktie, white shirt, mid-thigh skirt, dark tights and knee-high black leather boots.

In one shot, the camera pans from her squinting eye, down the length of her uniformed arm to a manicured hand that squeezes off a 9 mm pistol round. Bang!

Next, she is shown doing aerobics in a white spandex bikini.

"That a Russian woman is not just beautiful, but also smart and energetic, this is typical," said Myasnikova.

"Seventy years of socialism made Russian women fighters. They had to fight for everything: to get a nice blouse, to look pretty without any makeup, to try and make your apartment cozy when everything is leaking and falling apart, to feed your family when there was nothing for sale in the shops."

Fedorova has won a six figure cash prize, use of a New York apartment and a contract for speaking engagements worldwide.

But at the St. Petersburg academy, officials expected her to continue her law enforcement career, in a country where police can make less than $100 a month. She is due for a promotion to captain in August, presumably another Miss Universe first.

"I think this will improve the quality of our police force," Maj. Gen. Khillar Loit, deputy director of the academy, told Reuters. "Now the world knows that we, the police, know not only how to work, but also how to win beauty contests."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; missuniverse; women
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1 posted on 05/30/2002 12:32:34 PM PDT by mondonico
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To: mondonico
c'mon, you know better than to post this without pictures!
3 posted on 05/30/2002 12:36:43 PM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: mondonico
My kinda girl :)


4 posted on 05/30/2002 12:38:09 PM PDT by Toidylop
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To: Toidylop
Looks like socialist realism to me. How about some nice decadent capitalist bathing suit pictures!
5 posted on 05/30/2002 12:39:51 PM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: mondonico

We've got (at least) one, too!

6 posted on 05/30/2002 12:41:00 PM PDT by martin_fierro
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To: CatoRenasci
Capitalist Pig!
ha ha ha
7 posted on 05/30/2002 12:42:31 PM PDT by Warren
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To: CatoRenasci
Here for ya...


8 posted on 05/30/2002 12:43:16 PM PDT by Toidylop
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9 posted on 05/30/2002 12:43:51 PM PDT by Quicksilver
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To: CatoRenasci

10 posted on 05/30/2002 12:45:28 PM PDT by Fpimentel
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To: Toidylop
Pictures like those make it difficult to, errr, holster my weapon.
11 posted on 05/30/2002 12:45:34 PM PDT by martin_fierro
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To: mondonico
OMG...

(Thumping sound as BtD hits the floor, fainting from sudden blood loss to the brain)...

12 posted on 05/30/2002 12:45:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: CatoRenasci
Sadly, my HTML skills are not up to posting pictures. I believe you can find a stunning one of Miss Universe here.
13 posted on 05/30/2002 12:45:52 PM PDT by mondonico
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To: mondonico
Hmmm - wonder if I can get her to frisk me?
14 posted on 05/30/2002 12:46:44 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob
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To: Toidylop
Much better. But, gentlemen still prefer blondes..... LOL
15 posted on 05/30/2002 12:46:51 PM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: mondonico
Wow! She can frisk me any time!
16 posted on 05/30/2002 12:47:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: mondonico
I'm in love. :D
17 posted on 05/30/2002 12:48:03 PM PDT by Frohickey
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"Seventy years of socialism made Russian women fighters. They had to fight for everything: to get a nice blouse, to look pretty without any makeup, to try and make your apartment cozy when everything is leaking and falling apart, to feed your family when there was nothing for sale in the shops."

Every Leftist in the world should be required to memorize the above, and then the UN should be disbanded.

18 posted on 05/30/2002 12:48:14 PM PDT by Moonman62
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To: mondonico
Whew...nasty turn there...

Uhhh...boots...handcuffs...firearms...arrest me, my Amazonian beauty...

(Another thumping sound).

19 posted on 05/30/2002 12:48:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Toidylop
COPS in St. Petersburg...

"Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do,
"Whatcha gonna do when she comes for you?"

20 posted on 05/30/2002 12:50:57 PM PDT by RichInOC
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