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The women's movement FEMEN with antiislamic Egyptian activist Aliya al Mahdi called to say "NO" Sharia constitution in Egypt. On the eve of the decisive round of a national referendum activists came under the Embassy of Egypt in Stockholm to support the Egyptian heroes opposing Syariah-dictatorial president Mursi draft of new constitution. FEMEN calls upon the people of the great Egyptian to give up religious bondage latter-day prophet Mursi and give yourself a chance for a decent democratic development.
Deputies are horses of oligarchs!
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Loosely based on real events on the introduction in the Senate of Rome's Imperial horse Incitata. Today four "horses" tried to break into the Senate building of the Ukrainian parliament. Horses were barbarously stopped by guards of senat. The aim of the action "Knight's move" is to highlight the animal nature of the ukrainian parliamentary system. This parliament like all the previous ones, the convening of the Ukrainian Parliament are nothing but a bunch of trained horses entered in the "Senate" a narrow range of local Kaligul. Today, Parliament is a tool of dictatorship, Ukraine needs the people's Parliament.
FEMEN protesters continue to hit hard message home
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(WNN/VOA) Kiev, UKRAINE: At first, protests by Ukrainian feminist group Femen were ignored by the media. But two years ago the women started taking off their shirts. In recent months, their tactic has spread to France, Canada, and Brazil. Back home, in a basement office in downtown Kiev, Oleksandra Shevchenko, a Femen founder, rebuts critics who say Femen protesters attract media attention for the wrong reasons. “When we mixed nakedness, intelligence and our ideas, we saw that it is working,” she says. “People saw this contradiction, they are not ready to see, and to listen to women, and to see aggressive women, naked, aggressive women.” Coming from Eastern Europe, Ukraine’s Femen and Russia’s Pussy Riot band represent a new kind of feminist protest, theatrical and radical. In Kiev, activists train regularly for protests. Behind the training is anger that Eastern European women are 30 years behind Western European women, in ...
Ukraine is a major player in world affairs
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UKRAINE entered the international arena as a new state in 1991, after proclaiming Independence on August 24. A new chapter in its history started for a country with a population of 46 million and a sound economy. Ukraine is one of the world’s major producers of grain, sugar and vegetable oil, as well as among the leaders in coal, iron ore and steel production. One of the first tasks of the new Ukraine was to undertake economic, political, social and humanitarian reforms, with a view to establishing democratic and modern legal procedures affecting all spheres of life. Good examples are the law on the access of public information, the new law concerning the elections to the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, tax pension reforms and the national anti-corruption strategy for 2011-2015. In the field of foreign policy, Ukraine had to face various challenges and efficiently respond to them, so as to secure the success of internal reforms. Within this framework, Ukraine has adopte...