A Russian woman Svetlana Koroleva was chosen as the most beautiful girl of Europe. It was our beauty that received the honorable title of "Miss Europe-2002" at the beauty contest in Beirut. A girl from Germany Natasha Burger became the vice-queen. Esra Eron from Turkey was the third, she also received the title "Miss Elegance" (Turkish women seem to be fashionable now. The beauty queen of the world this year is a Turkish woman). Besides, the jury have determined "Miss Friendship" and "Miss Photogenic'".
More than forty women struggled for the crown of the most beautiful European woman. Competition has caused huge interest in Lebanon and abroad. The preparation for the event was so wide that this competition would become one of the most impressive in the history of European beauty competitions. According to the organizers of the competition, almost half a billion people from 70 countries watched this event live. By the way, for the last three years the European beauty contest has taken place in the non-european countries.
The president of the National contest "Miss Russia" Nikolay Kostin, who was in Beirut as well, stressed that Svetlana Koroleva's success is another triumph of the beauty of Russian women. He mentioned that this victory is also very important because it was won shortly after Oksana Fedorova's refusal to receive the title "Ms. Universe". And no one expected that with the rather biased attitude of the jury to Russian women Svetlana would be able to achieve such an acknowledgement. Her victory "was absolute and definite", as judges and participants said after the end of the competition.