Miss Russia has actually declared she was ‘shunned’ by the other candidates in the Miss Universe pageant.
In an interview with Evening Moscow Miss Russia Anna Linnikova blamed her failure to advance to the competitors’s last 16 on political disturbance, and stated she underwent ‘negative comments from long-time acquaintances from Ukraine’.
‘Many others avoided me and shunned me simply by learning about my origins,’ she informed the publication. ‘The girls from Ukraine and Switzerland simply ran from me like fire!’
Appearing not to acknowledge her nation’s continuous intrusion of Ukraine, Linnikova stated it was a ‘pity’ that her Ukrainian equivalent Viktoria Apanasenko didn’t wish to talk to her.
During one especially uncomfortable minute recorded on video camera, Linnikova attempted to stand beside Apanasenko throughout a line-up at the occasion, triggering Miss Ukraine to ask a few of her fellow candidates to change locations with her.
Linnikova stated: ‘I tried to make contact, but all efforts were in vain. Everyone saw Viktoria’ s demonstrative behaviour- this is her option, and I do not hold an animosity.’
Apasenko on the other hand countered at the claims made by Miss Russia and informed the Daily Beast that she invested the early morning of the ending viewing the after-effects of a Russian rocket attack which struck the city of Dnipro and eliminated 41 civilians.
The United Nations approximates upwards of 7,000 civilians have actually been eliminated given that Russia got into Ukraine 11 months back.
‘I am more than grateful to Miss Universe for their support, but I am not sure the organisers understood what it felt like for me to be standing and smiling on the same stage with Miss Russia who was wearing a red dress, the colour of blood,’ she informed the outlet.
She stated it was ‘absurd’ that Linnikova had the ability to require to the phase using an outfit called ‘Crown of the Russian Empire’ while she had actually been required to conceal in a basement to nestle from rocket attacks simply weeks prior to the pageant.
‘Until the very last moment I hoped that Miss Russia would come up to me and say sorry, but she only came up to me to get a selfie for what I think were propaganda purposes,’ she stated.
‘Miss Russia did not say a word about the war. People told me it would be dangerous for her.’
Neither Miss Ukraine nor Miss Russia made it through to the last round, although Apasenko was granted the ‘Spirit of Carnival’ distinction.
The worst part of the experience however, according to Apasenko, is that organisers declined to gice her a microphone for even 30 seconds.
‘I hoped so much I would have a chance to speak about the war. It was terribly painful,’ she stated.
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