Britain will become one of 11 countries with an active Femen base, as part of the ongoing expansion of the Ukrainian movement which boasts that it will “break the patriarchal system with our breasts”.Writing a guest blog in the Huffington Post entitled “Why we’re launching Femen in the UK”, founder and leader Inna Shevchenko said the group only goes to places where “we’re called upon by women”.“British women have joined our naked army, saying ‘we need Femen in the UK’,” Ms Shevchenko writes.“Prostitution, laws about immigration, Islamic extremism in UK will not escape >>>

We are those, who made Berlusconi read on our bare breasts the word "Basta!" before the last elections in Italy. We are those, who made Putin hear women's voices screaming "Fuck dictatorship" during one of his official visits in Europe. We are those, who disturbed Pope Benedict's Sunday mass with the slogan "Homophobe, shut up!" in the Vatican. We are naked soldiers of feminism. We are Femen, our tactic is 'sextremism'. And we are bringing it to UK! Femen was founded in Ukraine in 2008 as a national feminist group. Since September 2012, we've been an international >>>

What feminist needs a patriarch? Even the most radical topless activists, according to Australian film director Kitty Green’s debut documentary on the FEMEN movement. But its members have since cast off their Ukrainian male mentor and are now taking on the big issues without him. Green’s documentary “Ukraine is not a brothel” is an intimate portrait of the feminist group FEMEN before it left its first home in Ukraine. The film not only reveals Victor Svyatski as the group’s mastermind – a shock to some, considering its strategy of noisy topless demonstrations - but also ends >>>

What feminist needs a patriarch? Even the most radical topless activists, according to Australian film director Kitty Green’s debut documentary on the FEMEN movement. But its members have since cast off their Ukrainian male mentor and are now taking on the big issues without him. Green’s documentary “Ukraine is not a brothel” is an intimate portrait of the feminist group FEMEN before it left its first home in Ukraine. The film not only reveals Victor Svyatski as the group’s mastermind – a shock to some, considering its strategy of noisy topless demonstrations - but also ends >>>

by Helen Earnshaw | 21 October 2013 Kitty Green is making her feature film directorial debut with her documentary Ukraine Is Not A Brothel: a film about activist organisation Femen. The movie has screened at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, and that was where we met up with the filmmaker to chat about the project, spending time with the members of the group and what lies ahead. - Ukraine Is Not A Brothel is your latest film, so can you tell me a little bit about it? It is a film about topless feminist movement in the Ukraine. When they first started out, they were campaigning against prostitution >>>

LONDON – They started out in Ukraine, established a thriving headquarters in Paris and last year succeeded in ambushing a startled Vladimir Putin during a visit to a German trade fair. Now the controversial activists of Femen, notorious for their topless protests on issues such as prostitution, abortion and the wearing of the hijab, are planning to target Britain. In London to promote a documentary on the group’s activities, founding member and spokesperson Inna Shevchenko said Femen U.K. would focus on issues such as female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage and >>>

They started out in Ukraine, established a thriving headquarters in Paris and last year succeeded in ambushing a startled Vladimir Putin during a visit to a German trade fair. Now the controversial activists of Femen, notorious for their topless protests on issues such as prostitution, abortion and the wearing of the hijab, are planning to target Britain.In London to promote a documentary on the group's activities, founder member and spokesperson Alexandra Shevchenko said Femen UK would focus on issues such as female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage and the sex industry. "No one >>>

Inna Shevchenko, a long-standing Femen member, is sitting with me in a beach bar in Venice. She is fully clothed, I should point out, and is joined by her fellow activist Alexandra Shevchenko (not a sister, except in the broader sense). Both women have a wreath of bright field flowers woven through their silver-blonde hair: a traditional Ukrainian accessory for young, unmarried women. Femen’s appropriation of this is, of course, ironic. “Ukrainian women would wear these to attract a husband, but we are playing with standards of beauty and sexiness,” Inna says. “We >>>

In the beginning of Femen activity in 2008 we started our fight with prostitution, that blood-thirsty machine that caught some our friends and could easily catch us. During the campaign 'Ukraine Is Not a Brothel', we proposed to fight the social disaster that is a prostitution on a legal level. Femen created an initiative to focus on the criminalisation of the client. We wanted Ukrainian women to have a chance of getting away from that violent men's business. But it never happened and the change in the law didn't get voted through. Some politicians were just >>>

Three women from the feminist movement Femen staged a topless protest in the Spanish parliament on Wednesday against the conservative government's plans for a stricter abortion law. The women took off their t-shirts and chanted "abortion is sacred" from the public gallery as Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz Gallardon, who is preparing the abortion law reform, spoke about another issue. One of the women mounted the barrier that separates the public gallery from lawmakers who were seated below while another wrapped her arms around a pillar as she shouted at the politicians. Parliament ushers >>>