KYIV | Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:55pm IST KYIV (Reuters) - A topless protest by Ukraine's Femen women's rights group livened up feeding time for Ukraine's Euro 2012 psychic pig, Funtik, as soccer fans waited to see who he would choose to win Thursday's quarter-final. Ukraine's tournament mascot had been dozing in his pen in temperatures of 30 C but stirred and got up when he heard the familiar sound of the gate opening for his afternoon meal.Funtik is daily given two bowls to eat from, each marked by the national flag of two teams playing each other at the finals. >>>

(Note strong language in fifth paragraph) KYIV (Reuters) - A topless protest by Ukraine's Femen women's rights group livened up feeding time for Ukraine's Euro 2012 psychic pig, Funtik, as soccer fans waited to see who he would choose to win Thursday's quarter-final. Ukraine's tournament mascot had been dozing in his pen in temperatures of 30 C but stirred and got up when he heard the familiar sound of the gate opening for his afternoon meal. Funtik is daily given two bowls to eat from, each marked by the national flag of two teams playing each other at >>>

Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:10pm EDT (Note strong language in fifth paragraph) KYIV (Reuters) - A topless protest by Ukraine's Femen women's rights group livened up feeding time for Ukraine's Euro 2012 psychic pig, Funtik, as soccer fans waited to see who he would choose to win Thursday's quarter-final.Ukraine's tournament mascot had been dozing in his pen in temperatures of 30 C but stirred and got up when he heard the familiar sound of the gate opening for his afternoon meal.Funtik is daily given two bowls to eat from, each marked by the national flag of two teams playing >>>

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Swedish fans initially mistook a women’s rights protest for a spontaneous striptease on Tuesday when the Ukrainian Femen group staged a bare-breasted table-top demonstration against Euro 2012 in the capital Kyiv.However, the whoops of delight turned to booing when Femen activists held up placards denouncing the European Championships and kicked Swedish fans’ beer off tables in Kyiv’s fan zone.The group, which carries out topless protests to highlight the growth of the sex industry in Ukraine, has targeted Euro 2012, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland, and which it says feeds sex tourism.In >>>

An activist of Ukraine's FEMEN movement attacked the head of the press service of Ukraine's Interior Ministry Vladimir Polishchuk in Kyiv. The activist of the notorious movement threw a cake into the official, RIA Novosti reports. A message posted on the website of the movement said that the activists enticed the official into a press conference near the building of the Interior Ministry. During the conference, the official was answering questions about the actions of the Ukrainian police at the European Football Championship, which currently takes place in Ukraine and Poland. In the middle of >>>

TOPLESS protesters make European football’s governing body, Uefa, tremble in fear. The activist of the infamous Ukrainian women’s rights group FEMEN, Aleksandra Shevchenko, explains why she doesn’t want Euro 2012 in her country.“Major sporting events are often sponsored by beer companies,” Shevchenko told Gazaeta.ru “The purpose of these companies is to inebriate people. And the sex industry is always around the corner.“In Germany, prostitution was legalised before the 2006 World Cup. It is clear that sex tourism will boom in Ukraine >>>

An activist of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN demonstrates against the European Championships in the Swedish fan zone in Kyiv on June 19, 2012. (Genya Savilov/AFP) Change text size for the story Print this story Report an error Topless activists protest Euro tournament Topless >>>

Embed code Get News Video Feed Use this mRSS feed to stay informed of new content: Rezwana Matin | Jun 19, 2012 4:22pm EDT | 2min:07sec Swedish fans were not sure what to make of the spontaneous strip-tease by two women from the feminist Ukrainian group, but most did not comprehend that the protest was meant to drive home a women's-rights political message. About one million foreign tourists were expected in Ukraine for Euro 2012. Femen activists said the European championship, >>>

Embed code Get News Video Feed Use this mRSS feed to stay informed of new content: Rezwana Matin | Jun 19, 2012 4:22pm EDT | 2min:07sec Swedish fans were not sure what to make of the spontaneous strip-tease by two women from the feminist Ukrainian group, but most did not comprehend that the protest was meant to drive home a women's-rights political message. About one million foreign tourists were expected in Ukraine for Euro 2012. Femen activists said the European championship, >>>