Ukrainian feminist nudity group Femen protesting at Davos on Saturday. Three of its activists were detained. DAVOS, Switzerland — Ukraine's president showed no mercy Friday for imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, despite increasing fears that her case will hurt his country's struggling economy and its relations with the European Union. The gas contract with Russia that was the premise for Tymoshenko's conviction "is Ukraine's biggest problem today," President Viktor Yanukovych said at the World Economic >>>

Police in Davos, Switzerland detained and later released three Ukrainian women who were denouncing the World Economic Forum of insidious rich people, armed only with their bare breasts and pithy chants such as, "Poor because of you." The women were members of the group FEMEN, which has been gaining attention recently for its criticism of the sex trade, as well as similar protests outside the Paris home of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and St. Peter's Basilica during an address the Pope delivered in November. Inna Schewcenko, a representative for the group, said that the Ukrainian >>>

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Three topless women were arrested outside the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland today for trying to scale the wall into the meeting.  The meeting is comprised of the CEO’s of several global corporations and political leaders who help determine world economic policies. With temperatures approaching zero, the women took off their tops and had several messages written across their torsos. “Crisis! Made in Davos,”  “Poor, because of you” and “Gangsters party in Davos.” the women’s bodies said. The women were form the Ukrainian Feminist group FEMEN. They have >>>

A trio of bare-breasted Ukrainian feminists, some 50 igloo-dwelling occupiers and another 150 anticapitalist activists mounted a noisy protest outside the Davos forum on Saturday.Biting cold, deep snows and a nononsense security presence kept the crowd at bay, however, and the last day of the annual get-together for the world's business and political elite went off without a hitch ... almost.Outside the fortified Kongress Zentrum, activists were kept in a single town square by means of a brief dosing of police tear gas and the intervention of town Mayor Hans-Pieter Michel, blocking the street himself.Michel >>>

London, Jan 29 (ANI): Three topless Ukrainian protestors were arrested in the snow in Davos as they tried to break into an invitation-only gathering of CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor. With temperatures around freezing in the snow-filled town, they took off their tops and tried to climb a fence before being detained. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the feminists arrived at the entrance to the complex where the World Economic Forum takes place every year. “Crisis! Made in Davos”, read one message >>>

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Police detained and later released three topless protesters today after they stripped to the waist outside a World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland. The trio, from the Ukrainian group FEMEN, carried banners that read “Gangsters party in Davos” and “Crisis made in Davos” while shouting “Poor because of you.” Police stopped them at the gates of a complex as world economic and business leaders met inside. "We came here to Switzerland >>>

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world's poor. Separately, demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to the edge of the gathering. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the Ukrainians arrived at the entrance to the complex where the World Economic Forum takes place every year. With temperatures >>>

FEMEN will “pass the baton” to Bulgarian Manuela Photo: Anton Chalakov“FEMEN will have its branch in Bulgaria very soon. The girl who protested with us on Saturday is a Bulgarian and her name is Manuela,” Ukrainian FEMEN activist Inna said. “We didn’t know her before the protest. She was a volunteer, a girl, who was abused by her father as a child. She believed in our cause and realized that to solve a problem, you have to admit its existence first. And to be heard, especially when you are a woman in Bulgaria, you have to provoke the public,” Inna added. “We think Manuela >>>