In the Russian town of Berezniki (Perm region) mosquitoes are going to select the most tasty female during the Russian Mosquito Festival. The event will take place from July 17 to July 19, 2015. 
 
 The competition “The most tasty girl” will be held among the females who assert that insects love them alot. One of the organizers of the Russian Mosquito Festivals says that the winner will be awarded with a prize. 
 
 The participants will be selected from the candidates. “The selected females will have to spend 20 minutes dressed just in shorts and light tops. After that the expert jury including a medical person will examine the female bodies. The winner will be the female who has got the maximum number of mosquito bites,” one of the organizers of the festival, Natalia Paramonova, says. 
 
 The Russian Mosquito Festival is organized by the non-commercial partnership “Social Project”. The funds are collected from the businesses, and from the rent of the places given to trading units and ad banners at the event. During the Russian Mosquito Festival along with “The most tasty girl” there will be held some more odd contests: children fashion contest “Edgy dress”, song contest and a sport competition for the kids who have overcome the serious disease of cancer. There will be also a contest for caching mosquitoes. The person who caches more mosquitoes will be the winner. 
 
 Last year the Russian Mosquito Festival had to be cancelled due to unfavourable weather conditions. And the first Russian Mosquito Festival was held in 2013 in the town of Usolye in Perm region. 
 
 Source: Lenta 
 
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 “Always look on the bright side of life.” That seems to be the motto of at least one Russian town where — rather than grumble about the onset of mosquito season — they plan to honor it by holding a festival to celebrate the bloodthirsty insects. 
 
 The 2015 Russian Mosquito Festival is set to take place from Friday to Sunday in the Perm region city of Berezniki, where spectators will gather by the banks of a municipal pond to take part in a series of unusual events, according to its website. 
 
 Activities will include a “Mosquito Parade," where festival-goers can let out their inner mosquito, and a "Tastiest Girl" competition, which seeks to rank women based on the number of bites sustained, the Metro news site reported Monday. 
 
 “The girls will stand for 20 minutes in shorts and dresses while they are bitten, and then we will count the number of bites,” organizer Natalya Paramonova told Metro, adding that in her experience “mosquitoes bite people … who eat well, don't drink and don't smoke.” 
 
 Another competition, called “Mosquito Legs,” will rank women based on how thin their legs are, Metro reported. Although it was not clear from the report what this had to do with the pesky insects, perhaps it stems from the fact that mosquitos have long, spindly legs. 
 
 This will be the third time the Russian Mosquito Festival has been held in Berezniki, and organizers are expecting about 3,000 people to attend, Paramonova told Metro.
– Mosquitoes: the scourge of every corner of the Earth except for Berezniki, Russia. That town is gearing up for its three-day Russian Mosquito Festival, which begins on Friday. The BBC picked up an Interfax report on the event, which was founded in 2013 as a bit of a "joke" festival. But this element is reportedly for real: There's a "Most Delicious Girl" contest in which shorts- or dress-clad women compete to see who can attract the most mosquito bites in 20 minutes. A previous winner racked up more than 100, as determined by a set of judges that includes a doctor, and the fest's organizer says those who have the best luck "eat well, don't drink, and don't smoke." The Moscow Times reports 3,000 people are expected, and also flags a less-than-PC-sounding component: the "Mosquito Legs" contest, in which the thinness of women's legs is judged.