I seldom write about the women’s movement FEMEN because as newsmakers they have hardly ever been worth writing about. However, this time around they sent more powerful ripples than their hackneyed and dull strip actions. As a reminder: the FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko and her associates took a chainsaw to a memorial crucifix in the center of Kyiv. The action was held on August 17, when the Russian punk band Pussy Riot received their verdict. FEMEN wrote in their Live Journal the following: “As a sign of solidarity with the victims of the Kremlin-clerical regime, the FEMEN girls tore down >>>

News 20 August 2012, 10:40Police block FEMEN office in Kyiv Kyiv, August 20, Interfax - The Ukrainian feminist movement FEMEN says the police blocked the organization's office in Kyiv following the sawing down of the cross in central Kyiv. "The police launched a full-fledged hunt for FEMEN activists after the Interior Ministry's Main Department in Kyiv opened a criminal case on the basis of the sawing down of the cross in Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The Kyiv office >>>

News 20 August 2012, 10:13Cross sawn down by FEMEN activists in Kyiv turned out to be Catholic, not Orthodox Kyiv, August 20, Interfax - The cross that activists from the movement FEMEN sawed down in central Kyiv turned out to be Catholic, not Orthodox, the Ukrainian public organization Orthodox Choice told Interfax-Religion. "This cross was put by Transcarpathian uniates in memory of the people martyred by ChK and NKVD in the 1920s and the 1930s without >>>

The leader of the Ukrainian feminist activist group, called Femen, took a chainsaw to a memorial crucifix, and sawed it down in protest of Pussy Riot’s conviction.  For them, it was a show of solidarity. Their action was not the first protest.  Such protests have sprung up around the world according to Russia Today and Huffington Post since three members of the group Pussy Riot received two years in prison as their sentence for protesting against Putin in an Orthodox church for hooliganism.  Supporters of Pussy Riot in London, New York, Brazil, Australia, and other countries >>>

As a piece of political theater, the protest in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior has turned out to be an outstanding success, but that’s only thanks to the overreaction by the authorities. It’s safe to say that most Russians did not approve of the form that the demonstration took, and the three women themselves now say that it was an “ethical mistake” to have done what they did in the cathedral. Under the circumstances, all the government had to do was impose a light punishment. That would both have signaled its own restraint and its distance from actions that genuinely >>>

The Ukrainian feminist movement FEMEN says the police blocked the organization's office in Kyiv following the sawing down of the cross in central Kyiv. "The police launched a full-fledged hunt for FEMEN activists after the Interior Ministry's Main Department in Kyiv opened a criminal case on the basis of the sawing down of the cross in Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The Kyiv office of FEMEN […] was blocked by the Interior Ministry special troops all night," FEMEN said in a press release issued on Saturday. FEMEN activists reiterate that they are "calm about the authorities' >>>

FEMEN women's movement says policemen have been blocking the organisation's office in Kyiv, the organisation's has announced at its blog on LiveJournal. "Whole night long police special force troops were blocking FEMEN's Kyiv office at 21 Mykhailivska Street," the statement said. The movement opines, after the Internal Affairs Ministry's Chief Directorate in Kyiv filed a criminal case upon a pulling-down of a memorable cross police set off in a wide-scale hunt for the activists. The statement remarks, FEMEN do not regret their acts and are ready for any following up scenario. As Ukrainian >>>

Big News Network (UPI) Saturday 18th August, 2012 KYIV, Ukraine -- A feminist protester cut down a crucifix in Ukraine Friday in support of members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot who were convicted of hooliganism. The protester, who was topless and had the words "Free Riot" written on her chest, cut down a wooden crucifix with a chainsaw, RIA Novosti reported. Two other activists helped pull the crucifix down with a rope. The protesters were part of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen. "By this act, Femen is calling on all the healthy forces >>>

KYIV, Ukraine, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A feminist protester cut down a crucifix in Ukraine Friday in support of members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot who were convicted of hooliganism. The protester, who was topless and had the words "Free Riot" written on her chest, cut down a wooden crucifix with a chainsaw, RIA Novosti reported. Two other activists helped pull the crucifix down with a rope. The protesters were part of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen. "By this act, Femen is calling on all the healthy forces of our society to mercilessly cut out of our brains the rotten religious prejudices >>>