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Exit polls: Putin wins Russia’s presidential election

MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rolled to victory in Russia's presidential election on Sunday, according to exit polls cited by state television, but the vote was tainted by claims of violations, including "carousel voting" in which voters were bused around to cast several ballots.Putin tallied 58 per cent, according to a nationwide exit poll conducted by the VTsIOM polling agency. Another exit poll by the FOM opinion survey service showed Putin received 59 per cent of the ballot.Official vote results from the far eastern regions where the count was already completed seemed to confirm the >>>

Naked Protesters Draw Attention at Moscow Polling Station

By Geoffrey T. Smith Associated Press Polling station officials clash with members of Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN at a polling station in Moscow. Naked theft. That appeared to be the message a group of women’s rights activists were trying to convey Sunday in protesting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s attempt to return to the Kremlin for a third term. At a polling station in Moscow, three young women from the Ukrainian group FEMEN drew the attention of TV cameras, which had just filmed Mr. Putin casting his vote, and stripped to their waists to reveal the slogan >>>

Russia: Femen activists go topless in Moscow polling station (Video)

Just minutes after the Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had cast his ballot for the presidential election, three Femen activists appeared topless at the well secured polling station in Moscow. The bare-breasted women, who had slogans written across their chests such as "I steal for Putin" and "Thief 3", tried to steal the ballot box with Putin’s vote in it. Shortly after, the Ukrainian activists were taken away from the polling station in the Russian Academy of Sciences by the police, and are now facing up to 15 days in jail for disorderly conduct. Reportedly, Putin >>>

Nude Femen protesters insult Putin at polling station

13:36 04 MAR 2012 (AGI) Moscow - Three activists from the women's movement Femen have appeared topless at the polling station where the favourite in Russia's presidential elections, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, had cast his vote a few minutes earlier. The women shouted insults at the man likely to become Russia's next President. The protest was announced by the well-known Ukrainian feminist movement on its LiveJournal page.   The women, who were naked down to the waist, had slogans written across their chests such as "I steal for Putin" and "Thief 3", a reference to Putin's >>>

FEMEN pose take off clothes at a Moscow polling station – Gazeta.Ru

Opinions How to change the government in Russia: seven basic tasks for the opposition 01.03.12 14:27   By Mikhail Khodorkovsky, translated by Semyon Kvasha Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the CEO and the major shareholder in Yukos oil company and the wealthiest man in Russia in 2004. He was sentenced to 14 years... The Frightening world of the third term 27.02.12 18:12   By Feodor Lukyanov, edited by Semyon Kvasha Putin's newest article, this time on international politics, published in Moscovskiye Novosti on Monday, brings the unprecedented series of seven newspaper... Paying >>>

Ukrainian guards get makeover for the beautiful game

Related Poland’s race against time for Euro 2012 12/12/2011 21:47 CET Euro 2012 preparations 07/12/2011 11:10 CET euronews’ journalists on Euro 2012 07/12/2011 11:20 CET EURO2012 draw 02/12/2011 21:59 CET Europe’s finest brace themselves for Euro2012 draw 01/12/2011 17:38 CET As the paint dries on Ukraine’s football stadiums ahead of Euro 2012, the finishing touches are also being applied to the country’s border guards, but only >>>

Ukrainian feminists go over the top

The militant Ukrainian feminists who protest topless have urged models across the world “not to go to brothels". The activists showed up at Milan Fashion Week protesting against the use of anorexic models in fashion industry. ­Minutes before the beginning of the Versace show, the semi-naked activists of the Femen group appeared with "Fashion = Fascism" and "Anorexia" handwritten in black marker over their bare chests.Italian police gave the topless ladies a cold welcome as they reached the entrance to the star-studded fashion show.Image from femen.livejournal.com­Allegra, the daughter >>>

Thin models exposed in naked rage in Milan Italy outside Versace fashion show

A topless Ukrainian activist of the group "Femen" shouts as she stages a protest at the entrance of the Versace Women's Fall-Winter 2012-13 fashion show, during the fashion week in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) Source: The Daily Telegraph A Femen group's topless Ukrainian activist stages a protest at the entrance of the Versace Women's Fall-Winter 2012-13 fashion show, during the fashion week in Milan, Italy, >>>

Topless activists protest against anorexic models at Milan Fashion week

London, Feb 26 ANI): Topless feminists clashed with police outside the Versace fashion show in Milan on Friday as they protested against the use of anorexic models. The protesters, from the feminist group Femen, wore jeans and handwritten slogans such as "Fashion = Fascism" and "Anorexia" scrawled across their bare chests, the Daily Mail reported. The three attractive women, understood to be model themselves, chanted outside the high-end fashion show while holding aloft handmade placards with the same mottos and "Models do not go to brothels". However, Italian police forcibly blocked >>>