The Kyiv Post has reported that the leader of a Ukrainian group of topless feminist protesters has been barred from Russia. It came shortly before members of Femen were attacked in Paris for breaking up a demonstration by Catholics against same-sex marriage. The Femen leader, Hanna Hutsol, was prohibited from entering Russia at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport on a flight from Paris. She faces deportation. Femen invariably generates enormous publicity from its topless protests, including the one in Paris today. Femen protesters take to the streets in Paris to an angry reaction (some nudity). One >>>

FacebookFollow @washtimesPARIS — The Ukrainian group Femen, whose topless members stage pranks to support gay rights, taunted a march in Paris by Catholics who oppose France’s draft law to legalize gay marriage.The Catholic group Civitas organized Sunday’s march by several thousand people carrying pro-family banners.Several Femen activists turned up topless, chanted “in gay we trust” and sprayed white powder from bottles.That prompted several anti-gay marriage protesters to hit the Femen members and push them to the ground.On Saturday, several thousand people took to the streets in cities >>>

Thousands of Catholics and other opponents of French government plans to legalise gay marriage and same-sex adoption marched in Paris on Sunday, a day after more than 100,000 turned out across France for the cause.The rally, organised by conservative Catholic group Civitas, was marred by accusations that journalists covering the rally and topless counter-protesters partially dressed as nuns had been roughed up by demonstrators.French feminist writer and columnist Caroline Fourest said about a dozen topless activists from the Ukrainian-based women's movement Femen had shown up to the protest >>>

PARIS (AP) — The controversial Ukrainian group Femen, whose topless members stage pranks to support gay rights, have taunted a march in Paris by Catholics who oppose France’s draft law to legalize gay marriage.The Catholic group Civitas organized Sunday’s march by several thousand people carrying pro-family banners.Several Femen activists turned up topless, chanted “in gay we trust” and sprayed white powder from bottles.That prompted several anti-gay marriage protesters to hit the Femen members and push them to the ground.On >>>

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PARIS (AP) — The controversial Ukrainian group Femen, whose topless members stage pranks to support gay rights, have taunted a march in Paris by Catholics who oppose France's draft law to legalize gay marriage.The Catholic group Civitas organized Sunday's march by several thousand people carrying pro-family banners.Several Femen activists turned up topless, chanted "in gay we trust" and sprayed white powder from bottles.That prompted several anti-gay marriage protesters to hit the Femen members and push them to the ground.On Saturday several thousand people took to the streets in cities across >>>

  St. Petersburg, November 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Russian Federal Security Service's (FSB) Border Service barred Hanna Hutsol, the leader of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen, from entering Russia when she arrived at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport from Paris, a law enforcement source told Interfax-Ukraine on Saturday. "Ms. Hanna Hutsol is on the list of people barred from entering Russia. Therefore, upon her arrival in Pulkovo, the activist was escorted to Pulkovo-2, an exterritorial zone, where she can stay," the source said.Hutsol should be deported back to >>>

An activists of the Ukrainian women's movement FEMEN waves her national flag braving the cold (-22 C, but due to high humidity and wind, weather experts said it would feel more like -31 C) in front of the Russia’s natural gas monopoly giant Gazprom headquarters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012, during their topless protest against what they called “anti–Ukraine gas terror.” Ukraine and Russia have for months been locked in talks, with Kyiv seeking to negotiate a better gas price and Moscow angling for control of Kyiv's Soviet-era gas pipeline network. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA >>>

 ST. PETERSBURG, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - The leader of Ukraine's radical feminist movement FEMEN, Anna Hutsol, has been denied entry to Russia, officials at Russia's Pulkovo airport confirmed on Friday.

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ST. PETERSBURG, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - The leader of Ukraine's radical feminist movement FEMEN, Anna Hutsol, has been denied entry to Russia, officials at Russia's Pulkovo airport confirmed on Friday. "She is denied entry, the 11 o clock flight will take her back to Paris, her point of departure for her flight to St. Petersburg," the border service official said. He noted that Hutsol had not been arrested, but declined to offer any detail as to the reasons for denying her entry. In October police in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv questioned Hutsol over the activists' chainsaw attack on a wooden >>>