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Sections Entertainment ? Top Stories Aishwarya Rai now on Russian magazine cover ? National ? International ? Regional Moscow, June 4 (PTI): After featuring on the cover of Time and China's Beijing ? Business Review, Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai has now hit the cover of a popular Russian ? Sport magazine, which dubs her "beauty number one". ? Entertainment According to Russian weekly TV Park -- popular among Russian housewives and ? Index young working women -- Rai is the "beauty number one" of the cine world. The

glossy has done a four-page feature on Rai apart from featuring her on its cover. ? Photo Gallery

TV Park's cover story "Aishwarya Rai: The Woman without Prejudices", The Hindu punctuated with dozens of photographs of the actress, gives details of her Print Edition personal life and her meteoric rise from 'Miss India' to stardom.

? Front Page "First appearance of Rai at Cannes (with 'Devadas') was a real sensation. Her ? National gorgeous silk sari had eclipsed exclusively designed dresses of Hollywood stars. ? Tamil Nadu ? Andhra Pradesh Why stars, the Hollywood stars themselves had faded in her presence," the ? Karnataka weekly observed. ? Kerala ? Delhi "If she has overtaken all the beauties on the list of the most beautiful women of ? Other States the world including aggressive Catherine Zeta-Jones, it should not be a surprise if ? International Aishwarya one fine day puts any Hollywood superman at her feet as a war ? Opinion trophy," TV Park said. ? Business ? Sport Entertainment ? Miscellaneous ? Index

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