Moscow: President-elect and machoman Vladimir Putin shed a tear, Femen activists from Ukraine took off their bras and tried to steal a ballot box at the polling station where Putin and his wife Lyudmila cast their vote, and the Opposition shed light on largescale rigging during the presidential elections.Putin, whose new presidential mandate is for six years, will return to the Kremlin at a time of rapid social change in a Russia that is seeing an increasingly critical middle-class and an explosion in Internet use. But these concerns did not spoil Putin's mood on Monday night as he addressed over >>>

The activists of Ukrainian group Femen, who protested naked at a polling station in Moscow where Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cast his vote Sunday, could be barred from entering Russia. A local court Monday sentenced the Femen activists up to 12 days of administrative arrests, RT reported. "The Russian Federal Migration Service decided that it was undesirable for the Ukrainian women to stay in the Russian Federation. This decision will make them to leave our country and can be a reason for banning the entry to Russia," Itar-Tass news reported a press service from Russia's Interior Ministry >>>

President-elect and machoman Vladimir Putin shed a tear, Femen activists from Ukraine took off their bras and tried to steal a ballot box at the polling station where Putin and his wife Lyudmila cast their vote, and the Opposition shed light on largescale rigging during the presidential elections. Putin, whose new presidential mandate is for six years, will return to the Kremlin at a time of rapid social change in a Russia that is seeing an increasingly critical middle-class and an explosion in Internet use. But these concerns did not spoil Putin's mood on Monday night as he addressed over 100,000 >>>

A Moscow court Monday upheld sentences ranging from five to 12 days for three activists from the Ukrainian group Femen who were detained for staging a topless protest at the polling station where Vladimir Putin cast his vote, their lawyer told RIA-Novosti. Violetta Volkova said the court dismissed arguments that the action was a political protest and said it considered it rank exhibitionism. They were convicted of disorderly conduct. Earlier, the Federal Migration Service had prepared paperwork to expel the women, Interfax reported. In addition to their jail terms, >>>

A brawl between a FEMEN activist - not topless this time incidentally - and a Ukranian MP occurred during a live TV show in Ukraine. The host asked the girl to comment on the protest group’s naked action during the presidential election in Russia. The girl instead called on her countrymen to renew protest actions against Ukrainian authorities, a suggestion which made the parliamentary deputy from the ruling party call her a “prostitute”. However the blonde was no shrinking violet. Rather she is an experienced protester. She assaulted the statesman, who argued she is a “mentally-ill >>>

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             Brian Whitmore, FE/RL March 05, 2012 When Prime Minister Vladimir Putin went to the polls in Russia's weekend presidential election, he accidentally dropped his ballot paper on the floor before casting his vote. Shortly after he left the polling station, activists from the Ukrainian women's rights group Femen showed up, stripped off their shirts, and tried to steal the ballot box while chanting "Putin is a thief" before being hauled off by police. Minor indignities for the Russian leader, to be sure. But the symbolism was lost on few. Putin claimed a decisive victory >>>

Three feminist activities from Ukraine who paraded half naked at a polling station to protest against Vladimir Putin will be expelled from the country. The women, members of the Femen radical feminist group, stripped to their waists and paraded at a polling station to draw attention to widespread claims of vote-rigging at the presidential polls. They had "I steal for Putin" written on their bodies and shouted anti-Putin slogans. Police dragged them away minutes before Putin and his wife arrived to cast their vote in an election already considered to be in the bag for the incumbent prime minister. In >>>