Ukrainian activist Inna Shevchenko, from the topless women’s rights group Femen, poses before the inauguration of a ‘training camp’ for the organization in Paris. (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen)Two years ago today, Femen—the Ukrainian-born protest movement that has since become one of the world’s most provocative activist groups through its topless demonstrations and campaign for a militant feminism —orchestrated one of its most daring early protests, sneaking into Belarus in an attempt to embarrass the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s >>>

Photos According to a statement on the Femen website, they were “systematically harassed, severely beaten, kidnapped, and repeatedly received threats” in July.Femen maintains that Russian and Ukrainian special services perpetrated these acts under instructions from Russian president Vladimir Putin and his close ally, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.”FEMEN officially says fuck off to all dictators,” the group declares defiantly on its website.Femen reveals that Yana Zhdanova, Anna Hutsol, and Alexandra Shevchenko were summoned on August 30 to >>>

News reports about outrageous acts committed by public organization FEMEN make headlines in newspapers all over the world on a regular basis. Young girls rip off their clothes in public and organize actions of protests in different countries. Many people see their acts as a show, and few people wonder what the true goals of FEMEN are and who supports the movement financially.  FEMEN is a Ukrainian women’s movement that has become famous for its outrageous protest actions, during which activists of the organization, usually appear semi-naked in public. FEMEN began its existence in 2008. The leader >>>

Warning: This piece contains graphic images.On Saturday, FEMEN founder and leader Anna Hutsol was brutally beaten by an unidentified man in a cafe in Kyiv, Ukraine. Hutsol’s laptop, which contained strategic information on the feminist group, was stolen by her assailant, who FEMEN leaders claim is a member of either the Ukrainian or Russian security services. On their Facebook page, FEMEN leaders accused Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies of orchestrating the KGB-style attack on Hutsol. They allege that the violence was a response to the group’s continuing criticism >>>

KYIV – A photographer and three members of the feminist movement Femen, known for their bare-breasted protests, were illegally held in police custody overnight Saturday after being abducted by unknown assailants during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Ukraine, the group said Sunday. Police denied the four were snatched off the streets of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in broad daylight Saturday. A police spokesman said they were detained when the topless women, with slogans daubed on their bodies, violated orders by posing for the photographer in a public place. The >>>