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FEMEN activist arrested for 15 days for protest against Patriarch Kirill's visit

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July 27, 2012, 10:15 a.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax-Ukraine

Boryspil city court in Kyiv region sentenced on Thursday an activist of Ukraine's women's movement FEMEN, Yana Zhdanova, to fifteen days of administrative arrest for her protest action against Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill at Boryspil Airport on Thursday morning.
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Boryspil city court in Kyiv region sentenced on Thursday an activist of Ukraine's women's movement FEMEN, Yana Zhdanova, to fifteen days of administrative arrest for her protest action against Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill at Boryspil Airport on Thursday morning.

Interfax-Ukraine learned this at Kyiv regional branch of police.

As reported, the half-naked woman belonging to FEMEN approached the patriarch while he was talking to journalists at the airport and shouted 'Go Away!' before security apprehended her.

Zhdanova was accredited as a journalist of the Kharkiv newspaper Vesti.

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Mykhayl July 27, 2012, 9:46 p.m.    

Слава Ісусу Христу - Слава Україні - Героям слава!

If he can pretend to be a religious man she can pretend to be a journalist.

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AL BALA July 28, 2012, 4 a.m.    

and shouted a phrase from a religious ritual that aims to expel demons, roughly translated as "Kirill, go to hell."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/patriarch-kirill-femen_n_1704921.html

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Gee ?

The first person to have the brains and "balls" to publicly state that an exorcism MAY help turn KGB Kirill into a decent human being !

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PPS

For this Historical Moment - she gets arrested and sentenced the very SAME day !

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