Protests by topless activists with the Ukrainian group FEMEN appear to be working, as it has become patently clear to Euro 2012 organizers and their government partners that football fans will not pass up the opportunity to make “sexy time” at the upcoming tournament. Health officials in Poland are taking a particularly strong step: the Associated Press reports that, as part of the “Fair Play” campaign, 150,000 free kits with condoms and leaflets will be distributed in fan zones at Euro 2012 to warn people about the health hazards of casual sex, such as AIDS and other sexually-transmitted >>>

By Richard Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) - Anna darts gleefully around the two sparsely-furnished rooms situated through an archway off a steep street that climbs up from Kyiv's Independence Square. She is a general showing off her new headquarters. "This is going to be our training room for our Euro strikes," she says. "That's for the girls to get fit on for when they scrap with the police or have to run away from them," she says, pointing to a set of wall-bars and an overhead muscle-tone pulley-bar by the front door. The topless >>>

In an attempt to bring light to Ukraine’s rampant prostitution problems, a group of feminist activists took off their tops and attempted to steal the Euro 2012 trophy. The group, known as FEMEN, is threatening to carry out similar publicity stunts throughout the tournament this summer. Take Our Poll br Such tactics have already been many times before by this particular group. Photo: Femen activists Alexandra (L) and Inna Shevchenko display a banner with imprints of their breasts during a news conference in Vienna, March 2, 2012. Photo: Ukrainian topless activist from the FEMEN movement >>>

Embed code Get News Video Feed Use this mRSS feed to stay informed of new content: Julia Telfer | May 22, 2012 2:19pm EDT | 1min:10sec Topless members of the Femen radical feminist group seized the Euro 2012 football trophy on display in Ukraine to protest against the increase of sex tourism in the former Soviet republic. Inna Schevchenko, 21, stripped from the waist clutched the cup while it was exhibited in a central square in Dnipropetrovsk. A 46-year-old French journalist >>>

Topless activists from a Ukrainian women's rights group staged a second attack on the Euro 2012 soccer trophy on May 21, grabbing it while it was on public display in the southeast of Ukraine before being seized themselves by police. AFP Topless activists from a Ukrainian women's rights group staged a second attack on the Euro 2012 soccer trophy on May 21, grabbing it while it was on public display in the southeast of Ukraine before being seized themselves by police. Inna Shevchenko, 21, an activist in the Femen group, peeled off her top, >>>

By Richard Balmforth KYIV | Tue May 22, 2012 5:07pm BST KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine will use fighters and helicopters to guard its air space and put security and health services on full alert during the European soccer championship, but officials said on Tuesday they could do little to stem a likely flood of prostitutes. The country's top security and defence official, Andriy Klyuev, told security chiefs that the world would judge Ukraine by how it dealt with the security challenges posed by the month-long Euro-2012 tournament in June.The leadership >>>

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By Alan Duffy The boob is mightier than the sword A local activist group called ‘Femen’ decided to hijack the exhibiting of the Euro 2012 trophy in Kyiv by trying to nick the trophy as well as flashing a breast or two in protest. The group are concerned about the potential increase in human trafficking ad prostitution during the Euro 2012 finals and so decided to make a topless stand in protest. Arguably, getting their knockers out somewhat blunts their argument, but there you go. I’ll let you good people of Pies make up your own minds. Oh, and expect more similar protests >>>

Transmission Femen activists make their move with the Euro 2012 trophy on display in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk on May 21. May 22, 2012 Brash protesters from the famously bare-breasted Ukrainian feminist group Femen staged another assault on the Euro 2012 soccer championships that Ukraine is co-hosting along with Poland. Femen has argued that the >>>

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