Virtually everyone knows about the ice bucket challenge, which raises funds for research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Now, the sextremist group Femen has introduced a twist to draw attention to Russian president Vladimir Putin's aggressive moves against Ukraine. In response to his visit to Milan, two Femen protesters removed their tops and drenched themselves with buckets full of symbolic Ukrainian blood. "The Hague tribunal's prison yard should be the only venue for Putin," Femen states on its website. "Dictatorship must die! No to the war in Ukraine! FUCK YOU PUTIN!" Femen was founded >>>

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Luca Bruno Putin to meet with Western leaders on Ukraine EDS NOTE NUDITY - Inna Shevchenko, a member of the Ukrainian feminist protest group FEMEN, stages a protest covered with mock blood in front of the Duomo gothic cathedral in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. The 10th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) will take place in Milan, Italy >>>

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Activists from Ukraine’s Femen group staged a demonstration in Milan on Thursday in protest of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s scheduled meeting with European and Asian leaders this week, International Business Times reports. Two protesters took their tops off and poured red wine over themselves, which they said signifies the blood of Ukrainians. The activists called themselves “sextremists” and dubbed the demonstration the “Blood Bucket Challenge” in reference to the popular “Ice Bucket Challenge” that benefits ALS research that swept across the world this summer. One woman >>>

MILAN (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is mounting a diplomatic blitz on the sidelines of a summit of European and Asian leaders in a bid to escape Russia's worst crisis with the West since the Cold War. Putin on Friday will discuss Ukraine over breakfast with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and key European leaders on the sidelines of the 10th ASEM summit in Milan. He may also meet privately with Poroshenko. The West has imposed a series of economic sanctions against Russia since its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in March and its support for a pro-Russia insurgency in >>>

ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images Femen activist Iana Jdanova, seen here in June, ‘attacked’ a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin.AFP PHOTO/ERIC FEFERBERG Jdanova was staging the protest over Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. Enlarge A topless feminist protester who repeatedly stabbed a waxwork of Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a French museum has been fined more than $7,500. Iana Jdanova had the words "Kill Putin" written on her bare breasts and screamed out "Putin dictator" as she attacked the figure at Paris' Grevin Waxworks Museum >>>

Thursday, October 16, 2014, Milan (Italy): Topless Femen activists poured buckets of wine over their naked breasts in front of Milan’s cathedral today, in the latest of the women’s rights group’s signature protests. The stunt, witnessed by a handful of bemused commuters on a chilly morning, came ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s arrival in the Italian city for an ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders. Femen leader Inna Shevchenko was one of the two women performing what looked like a version of the ice-bucket challenge for the benefit >>>

MILAN (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin is mounting a diplomatic blitz on the sidelines of a summit of European and Asian leaders in a bid to escape the worst crisis with the West since the Cold War.Putin will discuss Ukraine during a working breakfast with Ukrainian leader President Petro Poroshenko and key European leaders on the sidelines of the 10th ASEM summit, which opens Thursday. He may also meet privately with Poroshenko.The West has imposed a series of economic sanctions against Russia over its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.Putin’s arrival in Milan was spurring protests ahead >>>

The radical feminist group Femen has staged a topless demonstration against archenemy Russian President Vladimir Putin in Milan ahead of ASEM two-day summit of world leaders The two protesters with "Stop ignoring Ukrainian bloodshed" written on their torso stood in front of Milan's emblematic duomo (cathedral) and poured red wine representing blood over their chests. "With such an act FEMEN reminds the world about Putin's criminal policy against Ukraine that has been going on in the last months," the group wrote on Facebook. "Today welcoming Russian Mussolini, shaking his hands, >>>