Four FEMEN activists staged a topless protest against Putin
in Brussels on Friday, shouting “Putin go to hell! Democracy, democracy,” AFP
reports. The Russian president was in the Belgian capital to attend an
EU-Russia summit.In a statement on its website, FEMEN said it wanted to
“drive from the capital of the European Union apocalyptic dwarf Putin and warn
EU about the disastrous [sic] for democracy from close contact with the Kremlin
freaks.” The group added:
FEMEN calls on the leaders of the European Union to
stop immediately political, economic and cultural contacts with
Gazprom-Kremlin’s dictatorship. FEMEN warns eurobosses that dependence of the
gas pipe will bring Europe to the economic collapse, the abolition of visas for
Russians threatens Europe with cultural Armageddon, and political appeasement
before Putin threatened with the Customs Union.
According to Agence France Presse, Brussels’ police
detained the four activists after mere minutes.
FEMEN was founded in 2008 in Ukraine to protest
gender discrimination in post-Soviet society, and the organization has since
earned a global reputation for its topless protests. Members of the group
demonstrated bare-breasted during the London Olympics, the Euro
2012soccer tournament in Poland and against the imprisonment of the members of
the jailed Russian punk band Pussy Riot.
FEMEN opened its Paris headquarters in
September 2012.
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