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Brazilian Joins Famous Ukrainian Topless Protesters To Target World Cup

As Euro 2012 kicks off in Ukraine and Poland under a cloud of controversy, a female protestor in Brazil is already planning for the World Cup in two years -- joining forces with feminist group Femen from Ukraine, which has a unique way of making themselve

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SÃO PAULO - Blond hair, white skin, red lipstick: university student Sara Winter (not her real name) is the first Brazilian member of the Ukrainian protest group Femen. The group is known for the topless protests it organizes around the world to demonstrate against sexism, and to promote women's rights.

"Can I take it off?" she asks the reporter while taking off her shirt in the middle of Paulista Avenue, São Paulo's busiest street. Sara hopes to enroll about 20 young women to help her "attack" the 2014 World Cup Brazilian organizing committee. According to Femen, this kind of international event is a magnet for sex tourism.

Ms. Winter is not a novice when it comes to staging a protest. Last month, she crashed the concert of a Brazilian dancer known for her beautiful body and sexual choreographies. "We are not against the kind of woman that she represents on the stage. We just don't want her to destroy the image of the Brazilian woman". She was intercepted by security, but managed to convince them to let her make a speech after the concert.

Sara hopes to go to the Ukraine in the near future. She has received a donation from Femen of about $1,000 and is now trying to raise some extra money on the Internet. She wants to go there to receive training on protest actions.

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Even beyond the bloodshed of its war in Ukraine, lesser acts of aggression by the state are a clear expression of the intentions of Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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They are "minor” incidents compared to the bloody frontline near Bakhmut, or the missiles raining down on Ukrainian cities. But these same incidents say a lot about what is going on in Russian society, behind the relatively normal facade that has been preserved for a year.

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Two arrests occurred Thursday, one of a Russian citizen whose story is one of aberrant cruelty; the other of an American journalist turned hostage in the proxy confrontation between Moscow and Washington.

Aleksei Moskalyov is a single father of a 13-year-old girl, Maria, a status which is in itself considered abnormal in Russian society. But above all, Maria was taken away from her father and placed in an orphanage for having drawn an anti-war picture at school. Her own teacher reported her to the authorities.

The father was sentenced to two years in prison for having criticized the Russian army. He fled, but was arrested in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, probably betrayed by the activation of his cell phone. He risks an even harsher sentence, and likely will not see his daughter again for years.

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