Americans have chosen the most beautiful Russian women. The first in the ranking of the Russian beauties is the current girlfriend of Cristiano Ronaldo, model Irina Shayk. Incidentally, a relationship with a handsome football player not just glorified her, but also made her wealthier. Now, Shayk earns much more than she used to, and fashion experts predict she will be included in the top ten most influential world's top models.

First Place - Irina Shayk. In the past she was Miss Chelyabinsk 2004 Irina Shayhlislamova, born in a mining town of Emanzhelinsk in the Chelyabinsk region. Now she is a well-known model who trapped one of the most eligible bachelors on the planet.

25-year-old Cristiano who has a contract with Real Madrid gets paid a hefty $40 million a year. According to Western press, the Portuguese had already proposed to Shayk. Ronaldo met Irina while filming TV commercial for Armani. 24-year-old Irina had a chance to work with Guess, Lacoste, Missoni, and La Perla, was a face of Intimissimi brand and appeared on the covers of fashion magazines several time, but only after her romance with Ronaldo she was elevated to the status of a top model, and her payments have soared.

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The runner-up is Maria Sharapova. Maria, incidentally, is also about to get married. Her fiancé is Slovenian basketball player Sasha Vuyachich who proposed to the tennis player after Lakers vs. Golden State match in Los Angeles. "We're engaged and very happy," said Vuyachich. "I proposed to Maria on the anniversary of our first meeting. Maybe it looks old-fashioned, but I wanted to act like a gentleman."

Well, I can not say I'm surprised ..

But its still nice to know that these ladies are some positive international recognition.

Ms. Ksenia Sukhinova practically my neighbor because she took sand industrial city of Tyumen.

I wish this young lady is better, and I am sure that her reign as Miss World 2008 will be positive.

Judging from the photos below it looks like Ms. Antonenko had some incredible and worthy competition to contend with in-order to reach the top.

But with stunning movie star looks combined with a smoldering sultry appeal I can easily understand why she took the top prize.

I’ve known a few great ladies from Yekaterinburg so the fact that she comes from this region makes her that much more endearing to me.  If you’re ever thinking of visiting Russia then this would be a great place to start.    (I’ve even included a few photos from the Miss Yekaterinburg beauty pageant as well.

I love to play chess.

And somehow the thought beautiful 23 year old raven haired Russian Grandmaster named Alexandra "Sasha" Kosteniuk kicking my ass all over the board has a strange appeal to me.

Or, in other words ..

This Girl turns me on.

Judging from the photos below seem, Ms. Antonenko had some incredible and worthy competition to contend with, in order to reach the top.

But with a beautiful movie star looks, coupled with a smoldering sultry appeal I can easily understand why she took the top prize.

I know several ladies of Ekaterinburg so that it comes from this region makes it much more sweet to me. If you ever thought about visiting Russia, it would be a great place to start. (I even included some photos from the Miss Ekaterinburg competition as well.)

Take a look below, and I'm sure you will agree with me. ;)

Tyumen, Siberia – is a wonderful old little town located on the Tura River. Can’t imagine, but bears, don’t walk here on the streets, nobody wears babushkas, caps with ear-flaps and plays balalaika.

It’s an ordinary industrial city, like yours and mine. The difference is that here, 21 year ago, on august 26 – a nice baby was born. Those times, no one would even imagine that that girl will glorify Russia.

A lot of time had past. Now she’s a gorgeous woman. Her name is Kseniya Sukhinova. She is new Miss World 2008.

Kseniya wasn’t an ordinary girl. As a beautiful one – was always in the centre of attention. From childhood, she was found of sports like gymnastics and biathlon. Played in local fashion theatre, was a studious pupil. She was always in a motion.
She is in motion till now. By the age of 21 - she achieved a lot, scored great success. Need to say, that she worked hard and is working now.

Kseniya Sukhinova has a lot of titles: “Miss Oil and Gas”, “Miss Image-2005”, “Miss Russia” and now – “Miss World 2008”. But she earns it.

Anna Chapman, the young Russian woman at the centre of "deep cover" spy ring allegations has been romantically involved with a rich businessman more than twice her age, it has been claimed.

By Tom Leonard in New York 7:51PM BST 01 Jul 2010

Miss Chapman, 28, told friends she had been seeing Michael Bittan, 60, a New Jersey millionaire, after they met more than a year ago in a Manhattan nightclub popular with Russians.

"He was older but he clearly loves surrounding himself with beautiful women, mostly Russian, and since the spring Anna was in his inner circle," a member of the same party set told the New York Daily News.

Miss Chapman, who moved to New York in February after living for in London for four years, could be jailed for five years if convicted of conspiracy to act as the agent of a foreign government.

Described by a prosecutor as a "practised deceiver", she has already been denied bail as a potential flight risk.

The weather was a little weird here lately.

The last few days have been relatively cold for this time of year .. probably around 15C. But we had a few good days of hot weather and I hope that more will be coming soon.

Because, as you can see from these images of our sultry Miss Helen is probably nothing more incredible is seeing a Russian woman, as her dress up their sexual rites of summer.

Now I know that many of you who have not been in this part of the world would be hard to believe that a normal Russian woman, Elena as there will in fact go beyond wear something like that .. umm "The form fitting" as it is.

Too Bad the Russians don’t celebrate Halloween like we do in the States.

I really do miss going to the costume parties and seeing everyone bringing out their alter-ego’s for one day out of the year.

When I talk about our Halloween traditions to Russian people they love the idea but think it’s a bit crazy. They ask me if even “serious” Government and Official People dress up in costumes on this day. I tell them that for the most part yes.