Ukraine Bride Promotion

(Kiev, Ukraine) In response to a controversial "Win a Wife" (from Ukraine) contest sponsored by a radio station in New Zealand, the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN protested topless.





Note that FEMEN members regularly take their shirts off in protest.

The Rock FM radio station ran the competition called Win a Wife, offering a 12-night trip - along with $2000 spending money - to Ukraine organised by a bride agency, Endless Love Agency, which says on its website it offers "beautiful genuine Ukraine ladies looking for love and marriage with Kiwi men".

A winemaker named Greg was the winner and he is due in the Ukraine mining town of Donetsk later this month before also visiting another town called Zaporizhia.

The prize does not include travel for the Ukraine woman to come to New Zealand.

Activists from the Femen group, which uses stripping as a shock tactic, braved wintry temperatures in central Kiev, holding banners with slogans such as "Ukraine is not a brothel".

Interestingly, this episode illustrates just how small the world is now with the Internet. A relatively unremarkable promotion by a radio station prompts women 10 time zones away to take their shirts off in protest.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.