Ukraine is hosting the Euro 2012 soccer tournament and is now in the running for an equally prestigiou honour. Kyiv is in the running to become one of the 22 cities of the world to be included in the new Monopoly World Edition game board. After much lobbying of Hasbro in Europe (ironically led by a Swiss gentleman living in Ukraine), Kyiv was included in the 68 city shortlist for voting - a major feat in and of itself.
Beginning today, you may log onto http://www.monopoly.com to cast your vote online. In fact, you may continue to do so each day until the cut-off of the contest on February 28, 2008. At the close of the online voting, the twenty cities that receive the most votes will become part of Monopoly history as the first cities selected to be on the World Edition game board. These cities will appear on the Monopoly board from highest rent property to lowest based upon the total number of votes received.
This is a significant development as this World Edition board game will be sold in over a hundred countries around the world and manufactured in 37 languages (including Ukrainian). This a great (albeit symbolic) way to get Ukraine on the international map!
Remember: Vote online each day from January 22 to February 28. If you peruse the leading countries as of today (the contest opened approximately 8 hours ago), Ukraine is presently in 41st position out of 68 countries. Please do your part in raising the country's profile.
Slava Ukrayini!
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Off topic, but post Baba funeral I asked for - and today got - a whole whack of copied paperwork from the 1947-51 immigration trek my family went thru from Ukraine-Poland (now Belarus) into German DP camps where my mother was born.. I'm going to retrace some of the steps on the German side later this spring...
And I bought the Everything is Illuminated soundtrack CD today. Very moving.
That is really interesting. If you have not yet read it, I really recommend Marina Lewycka's "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian." As someone from a Ukrainian family in Canada I found it laugh out loud funny.
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