Miss Universe 2013: Is Miss Russia, Russian enough?

Elmira Abdrazakova who will represent Russia at the Miss Universe 2013 beauty pageant to be held on November 9th this year, has become the victim of a campaign of racist abuse for not "being Russian enough".
 
The 19-year-old beauty faced intense racist abuse despite her gorgeous looks and vivacious personality from some nationalist Russians.

The nationalists claimed that she did not deserve to be crowned Miss Russia as she was one of the country's ethnic minorities.
 
Abdrazakova's father is Tartar, from the gelid Kemerovo Oblast and she was born in Kazakhstan.

In the wake of her Miss Russia victory earlier this year, she was targeted by racist trolls on social networking sites.
 
As a result, she was forced to close all her social networking accounts. "The nationality question - I don't really understand it. I don't understand why men would write offensive things to a young girl about her nationality," she told Sky News at the time. "It was bizarre for me when men were writing things like that to me. I was surprised we have people of that sort here," she added.
 
Abdrazakova will take on 87 beauties from countries all over the world for the Miss Universe crown at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia on November 9, 2013.

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