Valentina Akimova

Our people have started to understand what the beauty is, particularly considering the statements of all people in the world about the beauty of Russian women. Ay least they got it that Russia is a fount of beauty! (laughing)

The most important thing of anything is its uniqueness, not the name. Clothes should suit a person who has chosen it. This is a simple rule that many people can’t understand. There is still a boisterous principle in Russia to grab everything but not to have a little idea about what to do with it later.

When I was a student I broke a way for our girls from the College of mines to the competition “Miss Student’s Beauty of Moscow” and later to “Miss Moscow”.

When you see theatre and film masters passing away you automatically start thinking over the importance of a vaccine from the incurable illness. To the feet of the person who invents it I’ll personally throw all the wealth of the world and will give him all prizes.

I wouldn’t say that for me it was unbearable to recover from the deaths of Abdulov and Yankovskiy, but I saw and realized the feelings of regret and upset of elder people for whom they had represented the whole era, their youth. One can’t underestimate people of such an importance, their contribution to the theatre and cinema.

The first thing that I remember from my youth is my attempts to learn swimming struggling for survival. My friends had just thrown me off the boat and I had said to myself that I shouldn’t sink but should swim across that river and I actually had done it. I was very proud of myself in that moment. (laughing)

I’m a terrible communication vampire. Meeting different people is my hobby and the main interest. As a rule I become much attached to new people, try to share with them my energy, feel their gazes, ideas, look at how they live.

It’s difficult for me to do one thing in my spare time. I tried yoga and became bored with it, tried making photos but being snowed under with work reduced my attempts. I may not have found something that is really mine.

All depends on money, may be because we live in such a world and have such government. A person understands that if he wants to be respectful and successful he must have money. If you have it all the doors are open for you. Unfortunately, in most cases the best and the most interesting you get only for money.

I’d like to look back when I’m about to die and realize that my life was very interesting. And if I had a chance to live it once again I’d repeat it with pleasure. (laughing)

I consider the current crisis very positively as an organism renewal. Now all the rubbish, all the business that was built on money laundering and dishonest things will disappear. Those collapses will punish the people who stole a lot but people who manage to activate their brains will survive.