KSENIA SUKHINOVA, MISS WORLD 2008 TO REPRESENT 42 COUNTRIES AT THE 54TH EUROVISION CONTEST IN MOSCOW FROM MAY 12 -16, 2009

Moscow, RUSSIA - Russian Miss World winner Ksenia Sukhinova will represent 42 countries at the Eurovision contest in Moscow. It will be the first time in history that one person will represent all the participating countries. The 54th Eurovision contest will take place in at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow, Russia. from May 12 to 16, 2009

Semi-final 1 - 12 May 2009
Semi-final 2 - 14 May 2009
Final - 16 May 2009

A creative team made up of Russia’s best make-up artists, image-makers and hairstylists have created 42 looks for the Siberian beauty queen.

By tradition, the country which hosts the Eurovision has to represent all the participants of the annual contest taking part in it. As a result, Matryoshka dolls usually stand for Russia, while the baguette is often used as the symbol of France.

The Russian organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest decided to put an end to clichés this year and asked the world’s most beautiful woman, 21-year-old Sukhinova, to become the face of the popular music contest.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 will be the 54th Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled to take place between 12 and 16 May 2009 at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow, Russia. Changes in the voting procedure will occur with the re-introduction of a national jury alongside televoting while the format of the semi-finals will remain the same.

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VO HOANG YEN, 21 YEAR OLD MODEL & STUDENT FROM HO CHI MINH CITY TO REPRESENT VIETNAM AT THE 58TH MISS UNIVERSE 2009 PAGEANT ON AUGUST 23, 2009

HANOI, April 14, 2009 – Vo Hoang Yen, a 21-year old model and student from Ho Chi Minh City -who stands 1.79 m in height- has been elected by the Hoan Vu Company to represent Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2009 pageant to take place in the Bahamas on August 23rd.

A controversy made headlines when the Ministry of Culture passed a regulation that allowed only one major pageant a year in Vietnam. This year, the license was given to the Mrs. Vietnam contest.

Pageant officials tried to appeal this decision, stating that Mrs. contests could not be compared with Miss contests, but no agreement was reached.

The Hoan Vu company, which organized the 2008 Miss Universe contest in Nha Trang, picked Hoang Yen, who had been the 1st runner-up in last year's Hoa Hau Hoan Vu Vietnam pageant. VNExpress

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