MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. Russia will not take part in the Miss Universe beauty pageant this year, director of the Miss Russia contest Anastasia Belyak said on Monday after a press conference ...

the 2022 suicide of Cheslie Kryst (Miss USA 2019 and a Miss Universe finalist), and Russia's war against Ukraine. All the "campy extravagance" of the costumes could not "hold off the spectre of war".