A court in Kyiv has fined Russian reporter Dmitry Kostyukov and three activists of the FEMEN movement, detained on Saturday, defense attorney Yaroslav Yatsenko told Interfax-Ukraine on Sunday. "The activists have been each fined UAH 85 and Kostyukov UAH 136," he told Interfax-Ukraine. "The hearings lasted long, the FEMEN activists testified, and then two policemen were questioned as witnesses, who claimed that the women had been walking around topless," he said. "But their evidence broke apart as one of the witnesses did not recognize Kostyukov, while the other recognized >>>

Femen said that the women had been beaten and kidnapped when they were arrested and that they had been targeted by Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, to prevent protests during a visit to Kyiv by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox church, who have been accosted by Femen members in the past. Police said that the women, Oksana Shachko, Alexandra Shevchenko, and Yana Zhdanova, were detained by a patrol car after officers spotted them naked and arrested them for “petty hooliganism” after they failed to cover up. The photojournalist, >>>

Posted on July 29, 2013, MondayKYIV: Vladimir Putin urged Ukraine to join forces with Russia Saturday during a visit to Kyiv which saw feminist group Femen claim three of its activists were “abducted” ahead of a protest.The Russian president said the inhabitants of the two former Soviet states were “one people”, highlighting an ongoing tug-of-war Moscow has with Brussels over Ukraine’s moves to seek closer ties with the EU.In Ukraine to celebrate the 1025th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in what was once known as Kyivan Rus, a vast territory comprising modern-day Ukraine >>>