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When she moved to Berlin, the Ukrainian founder of Femen brought her own brand of protest with her: topless activism. She plans to stay in the German capital until women in Germany are ready to take the lead.

In the photos circulating in German Internet forums, half-naked women scream and ball their hands into fists. “Against racism!” is written across the exposed chest of one of the women, on the other, “Against hate!” In their latest protest, the female activists demonstrated against racism in front of a Berlin building in which the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), a right-wing political party, was holding a meeting.

The Femen movement, which was founded in 2008 in Ukraine, has recently set up shop in France and Brazil. Last fall, it opened its first international headquarters in Paris. At the beginning of this year, an offshoot of the Femen movement was founded in Germany. It is composed of 20 women, most of whom are from Berlin or Hamburg.

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