REAL NON-SEX

Vladislav Novy
10.03.2005
kommersant.com

Russia's sexiest artists get awards

First Channel and Russian Media Group handed out Top 10 Sexy Awards last week. Kommersant correspondent Vladislav Novy visited the ceremony held at Kino restaurant and tried to find out where these sexiest are.

The audience of First Channel and Radio Monte Carlo voted for the sexiest cinema people of the years via Internet during the last month. The awards have only one nomination, Sexuality, and go to ten actors and ten actresses. Fyodor Bondarchiuk, Sergei Bezrukov, Yevgeny Mironov, Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Mironova and Oksana Fandera were named the sexiest for the second time running. "I can surmise that dozens years later, people won't say "two-times laureate of Stalin Prize" but they will say he's "two-times sex symbol"," head of Musa Motors Boris Teterev dreamed. ...

The ceremony was over, and when I asked Sergey Kozhevnikov, co-owner of Russian Media Group, "Where was the sex?", he almost got indignant. "God, do you necessarily need to see a naked breast? We have sex symbols, not porn stars!"