KYIV (AFP) - Ukrainian feminist movement Femen said Wednesday it was moving out of its Kyiv offices, alleging official wiretapping, a day after police said they discovered a cache of illegal weapons in a raid of its premises.The group, known for its topless political protests, is facing a criminal probe for possession of illegal weapons after police searched its offices in central Kyiv on Tuesday, but said its decision to move out was made earlier over alleged bugging.The group is moving "for security reasons, since it is impossible to work there now: everything is being listened to," the head >>>

Law enforcement officers and explosives experts, who arrived after an anonymous call about an explosive planted at 21b Mykhailivska Street, where the office of the Femen women's rights movement is located, have seized items resembling a TT pistol and a grenade, the public liaisons department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's main office in Kyiv has reported. On Tuesday, at 1310, the Shevchenkivsky district department of police in Kyiv received an anonymous message that an explosive had been planted at the specified address. The leadership of the district department, >>>

Activists in Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen, Yana Zhdanova (centre) and Alexandra Shevchenko (left) standing near their office after a police search in Kyiv yesterday. Photo: Gleb Garanich/Reuters Ukrainian topless feminist group Femen accused the police of planting explosives and a gun during a raid on their headquarters in Kyiv headquarters yesterday in a bid to close their organisation down. The Femen group specialises in shock bare-breast appearances to dramatise women’s rights causes, mainly in the male-dominated hierarchies of Russia and >>>

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Ukrainian policemen search the office of the feminist group Femen in Kyiv, yesterday. KYIV: Ukrainian police yesterday said they had found weapons in the offices of feminist movement Femen, which the group denied and slammed as the latest provocation by the authorities. Kyiv police released a statement, saying that police had received an anonymous call saying that explosives had been planted at an address in the Ukrainian capital, which is where the Femen group’s office is located. Bomb disposal technicians were dispatched to the premises, the statement said without mentioning >>>

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Ukrainian feminist group Femen have accused the police of planting explosives and a gun during a raid on their Kyiv headquarters in a bid to close down their organisation.Femen specialise in shock bare-breast appearances to highlight women's rights causes, mainly in the male-dominated hierarchies of Russia and its former Soviet allies.Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has been a particular target for Femen's protests since the prosecution of the Russian female punk group Pussy Riot last year.A police statement said a group of explosives experts were sent to Femen's headquarters in central >>>

Related Femen’s breast bearing: firebrand feminism or foolish… 19/06/2013 14:53 CET Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN have accused the police in Kyiv of planting explosives and guns in the activists’ headquarters in an attempt to smear the group’s name and curb their activities. A police spokesman claimed the raid and search of FEMEN’s offices was conducted after police received an anonymous call that dangerous materials might be stored at a given address. In a video apparently filmed >>>

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