The Russian Army’s most beautiful woman is a Navy girl.  In a decision bound to incite, ooh dozens and dozens of bar-room brawls between Russian servicemen and women, Ksenia Agarkova has been voted Miss Army 2005. 

"Since we’re soldiers, our first concern is automatic weapons — boys
come second," a group of female soldiers sang during the glitzy
performance, accompanied, in an adaptation of an old army song, by male
officers playing guitars.

The idea of Miss Army, which began in 2003, came from a Soviet-era event called Miss Red Star.

Today is is a chance to correct society’s misconceptions about army
life, said senior officials, a view supported by admiring television
presenters covering the event.

Rather than the images of begrimed soldiers usually seen on television,
spectators saw sweetly smiling women in khaki mini-skirts, one of whom,
the contest’s first winner in 2003, extolled the "spiritual power" that
women brought to military life.

Yahoo! readers sadly don’t seem to share the enthusiasm of the judges for Miss Agarkova’s charms.  They’ve been voting on her photograph and have only given her a measly 3 stars out of 5. 

Needless to say, we at Siberian Light are fully in favour of beauty contests involving women obsessed with guns, and have accordingly given Miss Agarkova’s picture a well-deserved 5 out of 5 rating.  And anyway, how could we possibly resist a woman wearing her tiara at such a jaunty angle?