Miss Universe Estonia 2013 Kristina Karjalainen

OHMYGOSSIP — Kristina Karjalainen (born on the 15th of August in 1989) in Tallinn is an Estonian – Finnish beauty queen who won Eesti Miss Estonia 2013 and she will represent Estonia at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant.

Kristina Karjalainen is a student and model. She moved from Estonia to Finland with her parents at the age of 3 and is currently resided in Helsinki. Her mother, also born in Estonia, is Lithuanian and her father, born in Russia, is Finnish. Kristina speaks 6 languages and has mentioned that learning new languages is one of her hobbies. Other hobbies of Karjalainen is practicing magic tricks, dancing and swimming.

Karjalainen competed at the Miss Globe International 2012 as Miss Globe Finland, she placed in Top 5 and won “Miss Golden Girl”- award.

Kristina Karjalainen, 23, 1.81 m-tall, born in Tallin (currently she resides in Finland), was crowned Eesti Miss Estonia 2013 at the Toompea Castle in Tallinn, on June 12. She will represent her in Miss Universe 2013. Runner ups are Stefani Lehestik and Marii Jõgi. Kristina was crowned by Eesti Miss Estonia 2011 (Miss Universe Estonia 2011), Madli Vilsar.

Miss Universe 2013 will be the 62nd Miss Universe pageant. It will be held on November 9, 2013 at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. Olivia Culpo, Miss Universe 2012 from the USA will crown her successor at the end of the event. This will be the first time Russia will host. The pageant will be televised on NBC and Telemundo.

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers. The contest was founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills. The pageant became part of Kayser-Roth and then Gulf and Western Industries, before being acquired by Donald Trump in 1996. In 1998, Miss Universe changed its name from Miss Universe, Inc. to Miss Universe Organization and the headquarters moved from Long Beach California, to New York City that year. Donald Trump brought in a new team of professionals to the contest headed by its new CEO, Molly Miles, and president Maureen Reidy. The contest would use the slogan “Redefined for Today” for promotion of the pageants.

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Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and the Russian Federation (338.6 km). Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia covers 45,227 km2 (17,462 sq mi), and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. The Estonians are a Finnic people, and the official language, Estonian, is closely related to Finnish.
 
Estonia is a democratic parliamentary republic divided into 15 counties. The capital and largest city is Tallinn. With a population of 1.29 million, it is one of the least-populous members of the European Union, Eurozone and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Estonia has the highest gross domestic product per person among the former Soviet republics. Estonia is listed as a “high-income economy” by the World Bank and as an “advanced economy” by the International Monetary Fund, and is subsequently a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The United Nations classifies Estonia as a developed country with a very high Human Development Index. The country is also ranked highly for press freedom, economic freedom, political freedom and education.

 

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