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Femen Protests India Visa Rules

KYIV -- A Ukrainian women activist group has staged a protest action in front of the residence of India's Ambassador to Ukraine in Kyiv, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Four topless Femen members were knocking on the doors of the Ambassador's residence shouting "Ukraine is not a brothel!" Police detained all four. The demonstration came in response to reports in Indian media that Indian consular sections in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan had tightened visa application screening for women aged 15-40, to prevent the travel of sex workers to India. >>>

Ukraine Women Protesters Strip Off Over India Visa Rules

KYIV -- A Ukrainian women activist group has staged a protest action in front of the residence of India's Ambassador to Ukraine in Kyiv, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Four topless Femen members were knocking on the doors of the Ambassador's residence shouting "Ukraine is not a brothel!" Police detained all four. The demonstration came in response to reports in Indian media that Indian consular sections in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan had tightened visa application screening for women aged 15-40, to prevent the travel of sex workers to India. >>>

Ukraine protesters strip off over new India visa regulations

Jan 18, 2012, 10:57 GMT Four women braved temperatures of minus five centigrade to shout slogans and wave placards reading 'Ukraine is not a bordello', 'We demand apologies' and 'I am not a prostitute.' Police detained protest participants after they climbed down by ladder. The demonstration by Femen, a frequently-scandalous Ukrainian political action group supporting social and political reforms, came in response to reports in Indian media that Indian consular sections in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan had tightened visa application screening for women aged >>>

Justice Ministry refuses to register topless protestors Femen

Femen said it would reapply for official registration with the Justice Ministry after being rebuffed. Provocative women’s movement Femen has decried a decision by the Justice Ministry refusing to grant it official status as a nongovernmental organization. Femen activists – whose topless protests on a range of themes in Ukraine and abroad have brought arrests and international attention – said they wanted to register their group to put it on a stronger legal footing. But the Justice Ministry turned down the request, citing possible “infringement >>>

The Melbourne filmmaker, the topless Ukrainian feminists and a brush with the KGB

"Despite attempts to confirm Ms Green's arrest with the local authorities, the embassy did not receive any formal notification." The Moscow embassy contacted the Belarus KGB and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an attempt to confirm the arrest, but received no official advice from them. "The embassy was then able to get through to Ms Green on her mobile phone, when she informed us she was in the process of being released and departing Belarus." Green returned to Kyiv the day after her arrest and spoke to the Femen trio about what had happened to them in the forest. "I . . . heard from the girls that >>>

Me, the KGB and naked fury

Green travelled to Belarus and arrived at the KGB headquarters in Minsk at 11am on December 19. Officially known as the State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus, it is the only intelligence agency to keep the Russian name KGB following the dissolution of the Soviet Union."Femen arrived . . . in a taxi, stripped off their tops, pulled out their placards and started the protest. There were about six other media there. I was filming the protest . . . then I noticed a few journalists walked away. They left, and I thought, that's funny, the protest hasn't finished."Suddenly out of the building >>>

The Melbourne filmmaker, the topless Ukrainian feminists and a brush with the KGB

KITTY Green's "wild and crazy ride" in eastern Europe was sparked somewhat innocuously on a Melbourne train in 2010. It was there that the independent Melbourne filmmaker saw a newspaper photo of Ukrainian social activists Femen — feminist protesters who strip to the waist while demonstrating over various causes. "They were half-naked and they were holding these signs saying, 'Ukraine is not a brothel', and I just thought that was bizarre — a strange way to protest against sex tourism." As things turned out, documenting their antics would result in the >>>

The Melbourne filmmaker, the topless Ukrainian feminists and a brush with the KGB

"Despite attempts to confirm Ms Green's arrest with the local authorities, the embassy did not receive any formal notification." The Moscow embassy contacted the Belarus KGB and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an attempt to confirm the arrest, but received no official advice from them. "The embassy was then able to get through to Ms Green on her mobile phone, when she informed us she was in the process of being released and departing Belarus." Green returned to Kyiv the day after her arrest and spoke to the Femen trio about what had happened to them in the forest. "I . . . heard from the girls that >>>