Activists from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen brought their barebreasted protest movement back to Kyiv by occupying the Bell Tower of the St. Sophia Cathedral in order to denounce a draft law banning abortion. Once the five protesters climbed to the top of the tower, they stripped to the waist, unfurled a seven-meter black banner with a one-word message - "STOP" - and rang the bell. “The ringing is an alarm to this eternal city of the gangster conspiracy of church and state that aims to impose government control over the sacred feminine gift of procreation," Femen said on Twitter. The Ukrainian >>>

Members of Ukrainian feminist group Femen on Tuesday barricaded themselves in a cathedral bell tower for a topless protest against a Church-backed bill that would ban abortions.The women climbed the bell tower of Kyiv's central Saint Sophia cathedral and stripped off their tops and rang the bells in a protest against what they called "a criminal plot between the Church and the State".They also lowered a black banner reading "Stop" from the ornate blue-and-white tower of the cathedral, a former Orthodox Church which is now officially a museum of religion and belongs to the state.The Uniate Church, >>>