Moscow - Administrative protocols have been made against the young women who took their clothes off at a polling station in Moscow on Sunday to support Ukraine's statehood, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax.
The source said the young women were taken to a police station, where administrative violation protocols were made against them. They will face trial in the nearest future, the source said.
According to earlier reports, the young women who took their clothes off and interfered with the voting process were detained at a polling station in central Moscow on Sept. 14 afternoon, Alexei Shlenov, deputy chairman of the Moscow City Elections Commission, told a press conference on Sept. 14.
“Three young women, including citizens of Ukraine, were detained and taken to the Tagansky district interior affairs department,” Shlenov said.
The incident happened at polling station 105 on Moscow’s Kotelnicheskaya Embankment.
Alexander Brod, the head of the association Civil Control, said the young women, who took off their tops at a polling station in central Moscow on the unified voting day, belong to the movement Femen, which is known for its controversial protests.
“Young women from the movement Femen took their tops off and shouted slogans in support of Ukraine’s statehood at the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment,” Brod said in the Central Elections Committee information center on Sept. 14.
In the meantime, Femen has disassociated itself from this protest, saying on its Internet sites that they “did not delegate our sextremists to a polling station in Moscow” and that the women in the photographs posted on the Internet “have no relation to Femen.”
Valentin Gorbunov, chairman of the Moscow City Elections Commission, told reporters on Sept. 15 he is ironical about this incident. “We had a lot of phone calls from other territories asking if we could please send them those girls too,” he said.
When asked what would happen to the young women who had been detained, Gorbunov said: “I think some measures will be taken in accordance with current legislation.”
