Out for some shopping this weekend and I picked myself up a new passport holder. Your run-of-the-mill passport holders were 3 grivna (with purple and glitter marbling), but I shelled out 10 for this one. Was it for the leather-like imprint on the plastic giving an impression of higher quality that won me over? No, instead (amateur geographer as I am) it was the map of Ukraine impressed onto the book's cover. I'd like to Strange Maps this one - apparently the only city of note in Crimea is Yalta and it is situated in present day Djankoy.
I heard a rumor that one can get into some sort of vague trouble for carrying around a passport in a passport holder not in correspondence with one's own country of origin. Seems it could hardly be a problem as long as you took it out before handing it over to someone in a uniform. Readers in the know - any truth in this?
While I was working as an elections observer this winter I saw quite a few voters with Ukrainian passports dressed in Russian or Soviet passport holders. I thought about them yesterday at Victory Day while watching marchers in the parade - both young and old - chant about unity with Russia and the Soviet Union.
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I didn't know you could get in trouble for that. That's stupid. I really like your new passport cover, though! I want the Italian boot on mine now. ^ ~
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