Elmar Brok, the chairman of the European Parliament’s foreign relations committee, found himself in the midst of a scandal after First Ukrainian Deputy General Prosecutor Renat Kuzmin accused him of touring Kyiv on Dec. 20 “accompanied by escort girls and large volumes of alcohol at a nightclub in Kyiv’s Troeshchyna (neighborhood).” In a strange coincidence, immediately after Kuzmin’s accusation, one of the topless Femen activists staged a “topless attack” on Brok in Brussels on March 21. Yet, the head of Femen, whose trademark mission is to protest topless against foreigners who hire Ukrainian women for sex, denied the attack was connected with Kuzmin’s allegations. Group leader Anna Hutsol learned about Brok from a women who worked as an escort. Hutsol would not reveal the name of the prostitute or when or where the alleged meeting took place. Brok, who has been a strong opponent of the conviction and imprisonment of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, denied the accusations and said that “Mr. Kuzmin and his friends cannot stop me from working against selective justice and for the freedom of opposition as leaders, for Mrs. Tymoshenko and Mr. Lutsenko in Ukraine.”
