As it is already well known, on Thursday his Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine where he is to stay for three days to mark the 20th anniversary of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv. The Patriarch’s arrival in Ukraine was momentarily marred by yet another provocation against the Russian Orthodox Church, when Yana Zhdanova, a member of a Ukrainian group calling themselves Femen, rushed the Patriarch as if to attack him, shouting “Get out! Get out!”. She was intercepted within meters of Patriarch Kirill by >>>

10:04 Boryspil city court in Kyiv region sentenced on Thursday an activist of Ukraine's women's movement FEMEN, Yana Zhdanova, to fifteen days of administrative arrest for her protest action against Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill at Boryspil Airport on Thursday morning.Interfax-Ukraine learned this at Kyiv regional branch of police.As reported, the half-naked woman belonging to FEMEN approached the patriarch while he was talking to journalists at the airport and shouted 'Go Away!' before security apprehended her.Zhdanova was accredited as a journalist >>>

A topless activist of Ukraine women’s movement Femen protesting against the visit of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill (right) upon his arrival at the airport in Kyiv, Ukraine, yesterday. An activist from Ukraine’s prominent feminist rights group Femen yesterday bared her breasts in front of the Russian Orthodox Patriarch just minutes after he flew in to the country. The topless young woman was bundled away by a burly, robed priest and a security agent who blocked her path metres away from Patriarch Kirill as she rushed towards him in an apparent bid to make physical >>>

A bare-breasted feminist activist bearing a threatening message on her body tried to attack the Russian Orthodox Church's leader yesterday to protest alleged anti-Ukrainian policies by the church and the Kremlin.The protester, part of the controversial Ukrainian women's rights movement Femen, managed to get a metre from Patriarch Kirill at Kyiv's airport, but was stopped by a security guard and a priest.The woman, identified by Femen as Yana Zhdanova, had the words 'Kill Kirill' written on her back in large black letters.Police said the activist was being held at the airport and will >>>

She screamed: "Be gone!" minutes after his plane landed in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

The protester, from local women's rights group Femen, was intercepted and led away by security guards. Femen said it was protesting against the illegal arrest and shameful trial of three members of a Russian punk group, who had derided President Vladimir Putin.

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A topless activist bearing a threatening message on her body tried to attack Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Thursday to protest what her group says are anti-Ukrainian policies by the church and the Kremlin. The protester, a member of the Ukrainian women’s rights movement Femen, managed to get within a yard of Patriarch Kirill at the airport in Kyiv, but she was stopped by a security guard and a priest. The woman, identified by Femen as Yana Zhdanova, had the words “Kill Kirill” written on her back in large black letters. She was detained by the police. >>>

Kyiv, Ukraine • A bare-breasted feminist activist bearing a threatening message on her body tried to attack the Russian Orthodox Church’s leader Thursday to protest alleged anti-Ukrainian policies by the church and the Kremlin. The protester with the controversial Ukrainian women’s rights movement Femen managed to get within a yard from Patriarch Kirill at Kyiv’s airport, but was stopped by a security guard and a priest. <!-- --> >>>

The protester with the controversial Ukrainian women’s rights movement Femen managed to get within a metre of Patriarch Kirill at Kyiv’s airport, but was stopped by a security guard and a priest. The woman, identified by Femen as Yana Zhdanova, had the words “Kill Kirill” written on her back in large black letters and shouted a phrase from a religious ritual that aims to expel demons, roughly translated as “Kirill, go to hell.” Police said the activist was being held at the airport and will soon be taken to court, where she may face a fine or several days in custody. >>>

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KYIV, Ukraine — A topless Femen protester attempted to attack the Russian Orthodox Church’s leader in Kyiv on Thursday, while bearing a hateful message on her body. The topless protester, identified as Femen member Yana Zhdanova, was able to get within a meter of Patriarch Kirill at Kyiv’s airport, but she was stopped from going farther by a security guard and a priest, reports The New York Daily News. Zhdanova sported the words “Kill Kirill” on her back in large black letters, and also shouted a phrase from a religious ritual that is aimed at >>>