Oksana Shachko, a girl with a doll-like face, is supposed to go to prison for five years. It's a cool spring Thursday in Ukraine as the 24-year-old walks through the streets of Kyiv with her attorney. She is wearing a leather jacket and black boots, and dangling an almost-finished cigarette between her fingers. Five years, because she bared her breasts in public once again. The hearing at the Interior Ministry is at 5 p.m., and they are in a hurry. They walk past tall, brown and gray buildings from the Stalin era. They discuss ways to put a positive spin on the expression "kiss my ass," >>>

KYIV, May 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine's capital Kyiv, struggling to shake off a reputation as a new destination for sex tourism, is taking steps to curb prostitution during the month-long European soccer championship, the city government said on Friday.Ukraine expects some one million foreign football fans to visit when it co-hosts Euro 2012 with Poland next month, and stages the final in Kyiv on July 1.The Kyiv city government met officials from the interior ministry and state security service (SBU) this week to discuss measures to curb the sex trade, which is illegal in the former Soviet republic, >>>

The Ukrainian movement FEMEN claims that one of its activists was attacked while taking part in a demonstration outside the Khreschatyk subway station in Kyiv on Thursday, May 3. femen.livejournal.com The Ukrainian movement FEMEN claims that one of its activists was attacked while taking part in a demonstration outside the Khreschatyk subway station in Kyiv on Thursday, May 3. During the demonstration the "sex bomb under Euro 2012" was symbolized by a semi-naked young woman with the words Sex Bomb written over her chest. "The female >>>

Activists of Ukrainian women's rights movement Femen enact a performance, condemning the April 27 bomb attacks in the city of Dnipropetrovsk and criticizing security services' preparations for the Euro-2012 soccer championship, at an entrance to a metro station in Kyiv May 3, 2012. A series of bomb blasts in Dnipropetrovsk injured 30 people, raising concerns about security at the football championship that Ukraine and Poland will host in June. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) Credit: Reuters Published date: 05/03/2012    >>>

Activists of Ukrainian women's rights movement Femen comfort their counterpart who was assaulted by a passer-by as she blocked the entrance to a metro station in Kyiv May 3, 2012. Femen activists enacted a performance, condemning the April 27 bomb attacks in the city of Dnipropetrovsk and criticizing security services' preparations for the Euro-2012 soccer championship, at the entrance to the metro station. A series of bomb blasts in Dnipropetrovsk injured 30 people, raising concerns about security at the football championship that Ukraine and Poland will host in June. >>>

Great news! Kyiv, the city of my birth, has been ranked by Traveler's Digest as number one – as far as the presence of "beautiful women" is concerned, that is. Am I glad? Or am I a joyless feminazi who will use this news as an excuse to launch into a diatribe about how the beauty of women is a red herring in a country as plagued by social problems as Ukraine?The truth is, Kyiv probably does have some of the most beautiful women in the world – and they are present at all levels of society. They're the trophy wives coolly observing the world from the back of chauffeur-driven Bentleys, and >>>

The group of Ukrainian women's rights activists, donning only underwear and bruise-like make-up, chanted slogans and held up banners during their one-minute protest to mark International Women's Day. The four activists were dragged into a police vehicle and driven away, after which the İstanbul Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation to determine whether or not the protest had been a demonstration of sexuality. Shortly thereafter, the FEMEN activists were deported to Kyiv. However, the prosecutors dropped the charges, the Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday afternoon, >>>

FEMEN protesting in Istanbul, Turkey Courtesy The Istanbul prosecution service has decided not to open a criminal case against four Ukrainian female citizens and activists of the FEMEN rights group near Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul. FEMEN said citing the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet on Wednesday that Turkish prosecutors had made the decision on Tuesday. "The capital's prosecution service ruled that the same protest by the Ukrainian female movement FEMEN cannot be viewed as a crime," it said. "The activists demonstrate their sexuality >>>

KYIV, April 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Feminists and pro-aborts in Ukraine have staged a topless protest against government plans to outlaw abortion in some circumstances. The protest comes as the country has been plunged into a debate over the abortion law, which allows abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, while the country faces a looming demographic crisis with one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. The feminist group ‘Femen’ angered Ukrainian Catholics by staging a protest in which a group of women exposed themselves after climbing to the top of the Cathedral >>>

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, has become notorious as a sex tourism mecca in Europe. Many young women from rural areas in Ukraine migrate to Kyiv to find a better life. But, because of the economic hardship and the difficulty of getting a job, many of them support themselves by prostituting themselves. In fact, these type of women make up 90% of the prostitutes in Kyiv. Prostitutes enjoy no form of civil law protection in Ukraine. The police still treat prostitutes violently, intimidating and blackmailing them. Sex workers remain extremely stigmatised and excluded from society, >>>