KYIV | Mon May 14, 2012 3:11pm EDT KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimeter (two feet) high trophy, which was >>>

KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship.The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimetre (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air exhibition in central Kyiv, >>>

KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism. Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimetre (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air >>>

As if Kyiv doesn't have enough troubles related to Euro 2012... On top of an EU foreign ministers meeting today in Brussels to consider a blocwide boycott of the European football championship to be held in Ukraine, a topless protester from the infamous Femen women's rights group slightly damaged UEFA's famous Henri Delaunay Trophy as it went on public display over the weekend in the Ukrainian capital.   In a statement, Femen said: Security guards attend to the wounded trophy. It escaped with minor injuries.Security guards attend to the wounded trophy. It escaped with minor injuries. ​​Kovpachyk >>>

Transmission Security! Guards try to prevent topless Femen activist Yulia Kovpachyk from grabbing the Euro 2012 trophy in Kyiv on May 12. May 14, 2012 As if Kyiv doesn't have enough troubles related to Euro 2012... On top of an EU foreign ministers meeting today in Brussels to consider a blocwide boycott of the European soccer championship to be held in Ukraine, >>>

How many topless Ukrainian activists does it take to unravel a showing of the 2012 Euro football trophy? Just this one. Twenty-three-year-old Yulia Kovpachik strolled up to the shining silver cup, which was on display in Kyiv, struck a provocative pose, then tore her strapless top off her torso. Kovpachik, whose bare chest and stomach read “F*ck Euro 2012,” is an activist for Femen, a women’s rights group that’s protesting next month’s soccer tournament because they say it promotes the sex-tourism trade. After Kovpachik was hauled away by security and charged with righteous-sounding >>>

09:19 A young topless woman from FEMEN, a Ukrainian feminist group known for its topless protests, on Saturday threw on the ground a famous UEFA trophy put on show in the center of Kyiv and was arrested after that, Ukraine's Channel 5 television said.The Henri Delaunay Trophy will be awarded to the winner of this year's UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012), whose finals are to be hosted by Ukraine and start on June 8. Brought to Ukraine on Friday, the trophy is on display on Independence Square and will be shown in several other Ukrainian cities afterward.FEMEN said in a statement: >>>

A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism. Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimeter (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air exhibition in central Kyiv, ostensibly >>>

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Hands off ... Topless protester attacks Euro 2012 trophy at an exhibition in Kyiv. Source: Sergei Supinsky / AAP A topless Ukrainian woman attacked the trophy to be awarded at the upcoming Euro 2012 soccer tournament, knocking the silverware to the ground during an exhibition in Kyiv. The woman ran toward the Henri Delaunay trophy, then exposed an obscene slogan protesting against the tournament written on her torso. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End >>>