Yana Dobrovolskaya ate carrots and cottage cheese, then stretched herself on horizontal bars, to gain the height needed to enter pageant.
Deputy Prime Minister set for another visit to spaceport as he warns situation at Vostochny is 'critical' with project dogged by delays and corruption.
Most powerful typhoon ever recorded in Primorsky region, causing serious flooding.
Russian number one admits pride when announcers say she hails from the remote oil town of Nyagan.
She has lived in the wilderness for 71 years but famous Old Believer faces the cameras to deliver world a message for first time.