Russia - Winner of the Europa 2012 Jury Prize Competetion

Russian Post’s EUROPA stamp entry was named the winner of the 2012 PostEurop EUROPA Jury Prize Competition which was held at the famous Parc Floral de Paris in conjunction with the Planet Timbres Exhibition, where an expert jury met and voted through closed ballot.

PostEurop held their second EUROPA Jury Competition at the beautiful Parc Floral de Paris this spring. Seven philately experts were invited to join the jury and judge the EUROPA stamps based on their expert opinion. 55 entries were displayed before the jury and after much deliberation, the jurors casted their closed ballots followed by a round of voting and discussion. Having reached a consensus, Mr David E Failor, Cheif of the United Nations Postal Administartion, proudly announced Russian Post as the winner of the 2012 Europa stamp Jury Prize.