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Ukraine’s topless feminists go international
Ukrainian feminist group Femen are taking their topless protests around the world, having already stripped off in Western Europe to highlight a range of issues from democratic violations to sexual exploitation, in what some call a new brand of feminist activism. While enjoying little support at home, Femen’s protesters have…
Chief suspect in Putin murder plot withdraws confession
The chief suspect being tried in Ukraine over an alleged plot to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin has withdrawn his confession, claiming he was tortured, a news report said on Thursday. Days before last year’s presidential elections, Russian state television disclosed an alleged plan to bomb Putin’s motorcade, airing a…
Ukraine accused of allowing foreign nations to kidnap asylum seekers
By Oksana Grytsenko, The Guardian In latest case, Russian says he was kidnapped on street, taken across border and tortured into making a false confession Ukraine has been accused of allowing other states to abduct and repatriate their own nationals who have sought refugee status in the former Soviet republic, in…
Topless activists stage anti-corruption protest as fight erupts in Ukraine’s new parliament
Activists from Ukraine’s feminist group Femen staged a topless anti-corruption protest on Wednesday outside the ex-Soviet country’s newly-elected parliament as a fight erupted between lawmakers inside. The opening session of the Verkhkovna Rada began in a typically raucous fashion, after the October 28 parliamentary elections which were condemned by the…
Ukraine clashes over controversial language law
Ukraine police on Wednesday used tear gas and several people were injured at a chaotic protest against a new language law as the president summoned the leaders of parliament to limit a growing crisis. The opposition has reacted furiously to the rushed passing by the Ukrainian parliament the Verkhovna Rada…
Nuns: European soccer championship is platform for protest
Euro 2012 has not stopped political life in Ukraine. Far from it. Instead, football is providing the perfect platform to air a range of local and national grievances in the former Soviet state. The day after Germany’s 1-0 victory over Portugal in the city, it was the turn of a group of…
164 dead as cold snap grips Europe
Europe’s cold snap has claimed 164 lives, as countries from Ukraine to Italy struggle with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places and with more cold weather forecast. Entire villages were cut off in parts of eastern Europe on Thursday, trapping thousands, while road, air and rail links…
Putin says South Stream pipeline construction will begin in 2012
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday brought forward to 2012 the date for starting construction of the South Stream pipeline that aims to deliver Russian gas to Western Europe while avoiding Ukraine. Putin’s announcement marks an acceleration of the timetable for building the hugely ambitious pipeline and comes after Moscow…
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