One day last summer, Inna Shevchenko went into a forest outside Kyiv, to learn how to use a chainsaw. The lumberjacks who were instructing her couldn't work out why she was so keen. "They thought I was just a crazy blonde," she says, shaking her white curls. "I was acting like: 'Oh really?'" She affects a coy, clueless demeanour. "'That's how you do it? Great!'"The next day she went to a hilltop overlooking Kyiv, and stripped to a pair of red denim shorts, worn with heavy boots, leather gloves, and a mask to protect her eyes. The Pussy Riot verdict was due that day, and in tribute to the >>>

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A Femen activist is detained during a protest against what they called "bloody Islamist regimes" taking part in the London Olympics. Photo: Reuters Their targets have included Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IKEA, the G-8, and the Pope. The predominantly blonde-haired, bare-breasted young women have struck in 17 countries across the world and are reported to have 150,000 supporters worldwide. They call themselves the new Amazons, boldly evoking the mythical nation of all-female warriors. Protests by Femen, as the group is named, are designed to attract >>>

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(ANSAmed) - TUNIS, MARCH 19 - Tunisian high school student Amina, 19, has joined the Femen credo of protest through nudity, and a Muslim cleric has issued a fatwa calling for her to be flogged then stoned to death. Amina posted a topless picture of herself with the words ''my body is mine and no one else's'' written on her skin on the Tunisian Facebook fanpage of Femen, a social movement and provocative women's movement founded in 2008 in the Ukraine. The page got 3,700 supporters and also a lot of insults and protests against what some deem is mere exhibitionism. Fatwas are rulings >>>

One of the reasons people protest is to expose their ideas to the world. It seems to be working for one group of female activists -- at least the exposure part. The group, Femen, is a group of women who, according to the organization's website, defend sexual and social equality with their breasts and "undermine the foundations of the patriarchal world by their intellect, sex, agility, make disorder, bring neurosis and panic to the men's world" (sic). Femen claims to be in 17 countries and have more than 150,000 supporters >>>

Whether she's railing against the Catholic hierarchy or battling social conservatives, Ukrainian activist Inna Shevchenko's feminism is a contact sport. PARIS -- Heads turned toward Inna Shevchenko, the 22-year-old Ukrainian leader of the militant feminist group Femen, as she strode into the brass-and-mirrors environs of the café where we had agreed to meet, on the central rue Pierre Lescot, one evening in mid-February. Atop the six-inch high heels of her black felt boots, her wavy, strawberry blonde hair spilling out from beneath a black baseball cap, her eyes mint-green >>>

TOPLESS protestors have been dragged away by police, just yards away from where cardinals are attempting to choose a new Pope. The demonstration, staged by Ukrainian feminist group Femen, took place in St Peter's Square on the first day of the papal conclave yesterday. Demanding the ordination of female priests, the protest was quickly >>>

Whether she's railing against the Catholic hierarchy or battling social conservatives, for Ukrainian activist Inna Shevchenko, feminism is a contact sport. PARIS - Heads turned toward Inna Shevchenko, the slender, 22-year-old Ukrainian leader of the militant feminist group Femen, as she strode into the brass-and-mirrors environs of the café where we had agreed to meet, on the central rue Pierre Lescot, one evening in mid-February. Atop the six-inch high heels of her black felt boots, her wavy, strawberry blonde hair spilling out from beneath a black baseball cap, her eyes >>>