A group claiming to represent the Ukrainian feminist movement FEMEN has offered payment to anyone who desecrates Orthodox crosses and churches. Cutting down a cross will earn you as much as 6,000 rubles, or $188 US. Leaving an inscription on an Orthodox cross will net around $62, while graffiti on a church wall comes with a nearly hundred-dollar reward. The bounty list was published on the Internet by Karina Pankova, a 23-year-old woman who presented herself as the leader of FEMEN’s branch in northwest Russia’s arctic city of Murmansk.Read more here.  >>>

A group claiming to represent the Ukrainian feminist movement FEMEN has offered payment to anyone who desecrates Orthodox crosses and churches. Cutting down a cross will earn you as much as 6,000 rubles, or $188 US. Leaving an inscription on an Orthodox cross will net around $62, while graffiti on a church wall comes with a nearly hundred-dollar reward. The bounty list was published on the Internet by Karina Pankova, a 23-year-old woman who presented herself as the leader of FEMEN’s branch in northwest Russia’s arctic city of Murmansk.The activist also invited “young and attractive” >>>

 Since its formation in 2008, the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen has been a source of much controversy with their topless protests against the discrimination of women in what they call Ukraine's patriarchal post-Soviet society.    In a 2011 interview with Radio Liberty, the movement’s mastermind, Anna Hutsol, explained that “it is not enough to just go out and demonstrate and set up tents. You need to carry out some kind of action so as to get maximum play from the situation and to attract maximum attention."   According to her logic: "Topless protests are probably >>>

Moscow, Sep 6: A member of Ukrainian feminist group Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix while being topless in Kyiv in support of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website.Femen said Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested."The organization's council ruled to evacuate activist Shevchenko to Paris, where she could continue her work," Femen said on its website.Shevchenko left her apartment via the balcony, then drove a car to Korosten, where she >>>

Poland Responds to Allegations of CIA Black Sites, Feminist Activist Flees Ukraine Plus, Hungary gets nationalization-happy and Putin shows birds how to migrate. by Jeremy Druker, Joshua Boissevain, and Nino Tsintsadze 6 September 2012 1. Polish government responds to allegations of CIA secret jails   The Polish government said on 5 September that it had met a deadline to provide information to the European Court of Human Rights about allegations that the country had hosted secret jails in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks, Reuters reports.   Human rights activists >>>

Moscow: A member of Ukrainian feminist group, Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix while being topless in Kyiv in support of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website. Femen said Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested. "The organisation's council ruled to evacuate activist Shevchenko to Paris, where she could continue her work," Femen said on its website. Shevchenko left her apartment via the balcony, then drove a car >>>

By IANS, By RIA Novosti, Moscow: A member of Ukrainian feminist group Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix while being topless in Kyiv in support of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website. Femen said Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested. "The organization's council ruled to evacuate activist Shevchenko to Paris, where she could continue her work," Femen said on its website. Shevchenko left her apartment via the balcony, then drove a car to >>>

A member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix in Kyiv in support of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website on Wednesday. Femen says that Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested. “The organization’s council ruled to evacuate activist Shevchenko to Paris, where she could continue her work,” Femen said on its website. Shevchenko left her apartment via the balcony, then drove a car to the town of Korosten, >>>

News 05 September 2012, 15:47FEMEN initiator of sawing dawn the cross leaves Ukraine for France Kyiv, September 5, Interfax - Inna Shevchenko, the member of the movement FEMEN who initiated the recent sawing down of the cross in central Kyiv, has left Ukraine for France. The woman has decided to leave Ukraine "under pressure from the Ukrainian Security Service and the Russian Orthodox Church," FEMEN reported on its website on Wednesday. "In the course of >>>

Inna Shevchenko, an activist of the FEMEN women's rights movement, the ideologist of a project to cut down a cross in central Kyiv, has left Ukraine for France, reads a statement posted on the FEMEN's Web site on Wednesda, Sept. 5. According to the statement, she decided to leave Ukraine "in view of increased pressure from the SBU and the Russian Orthodox Church." "Within two weeks of the cross being cut down in Kyiv, Shevchenko was under around-the-clock surveillance, and the courtyard of her house was occupied by SBU officers. At a meeting of the council of the >>>