14 DAY TRIAL // Winning a Miss title should be reason for celebration any given day but, since she became Miss Russia, 18-year-old Elmira Abdrazakova has had to go through more heartbreak and humiliation than ever. That’s because online trolls keep attacking her for not looking “slavic enough.”
Yahoo! News reports that Elmira was born in Kazakhstan to a Tatar father, but she was raised in Russia. She considers herself Russian and, as it so happens, she is just that legally as well.
Since she won the much coveted tiara and national title, she’s been attacked so viciously on social media that she was forced to close her accounts temporarily, just so she couldn’t read mean things about herself online.
Admittedly, many believe she shouldn’t have even been in the competition, let alone win it – and they’re making sure she learns what they think by leaving her nasty comments on various forums.
“One fairly typical message, still posted on a Russian news site, describes her as an ‘ordinary Azeri parsley seller’ and says the user would not even glance in her direction,” Yahoo! reports.
“Another said that she is ‘an ordinary market stall worker’ and would be considered ‘a real beauty among sheep’,” adds the same media outlet.
Elmira has also talked to the press about the recent turn of events, admitting that she was obviously shocked and disappointed by online reactions to her win.
She doesn’t even understand how her nationality came to be questioned.
“The nationality question – I don't really understand it, I don't understand why men would write to a young girl offensive things about her nationality,” she says, as cited by the same media outlet.
“It humiliates first of all not me, but those people who write it. It was bizarre for me when men were writing things like that to me, I was surprised we have people of that sort here,” Elmira continues.