Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 23, 2018, Oksana Shachko, the 31-year- old Ukrainian-born cofounder of Femen, was found dead in her apartment in Montrouge ...

A new documentary film has revealed that the purported mastermind behind Femen, the Ukrainian feminist group famous for its topless protests, is in fact a man who calls women "bitches." "Ukraine Is ...

Pussy Riot and FEMEN storm the Russian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale on May 6, 2026. (photo Max Avdeev, courtesy Pussy Riot, all others Avedis Hadjian/Hyperallergic) VENICE — Thick plumes of ...

Video. The 2026 Venice Biennale opened press previews on Wednesday with protests outside the Russian pavilion, marking Moscow ...

Inna Shevchenko, the 24-year-old leader of Femen in France and de-facto commander of the movement as a whole, scrolled through her iPhone messages several weeks ago, as we sat at a sidewalk table ...

The feminist artist Oksana Shachko, a founding member of the protest group FEMEN, has died at age 31. According to friends, the Ukraine-born activist, who had political asylum in France, left a ...

Before meeting Inna Shevchenko I would have said it was impossible for an educated 19-year-old woman studying journalism at a prestigious university in a European capital, while working as the city ...

Ukrainian feminist group Femen bared their perennially-painted breasts in Times Square Thursday as part of an international protest campaign against the Russian forces in Crimea. "Fuck Putin!" Femen ...

Where the group was born, in Ukraine, its naked protests made more sense—but in the Muslim world, the message is getting lost in translation. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Updated | Feminist protest group Femen has denied reports that it has ...

When the activist group Femen burst onto the Ukrainian protest scene in 2008, holding mud-wrestling matches on Kyiv's central Independence Square to protest the country's notoriously dirty politics, I ...