Ukrainian women protest flu panic wearing only surgical masks
By Luke Allnutt
A Ukrainian women's group, FEMEN, took to the streets of Kyiv on November 9 to protest what they see as swine-flu hysteria.
The group is accusing politicians of using the outbreak to create fear ahead of the country's January 17 presidential election.
FEMEN's protests usually involve some state of undress: in order to draw attention to the plight of prostitutes, they dressed up as nurses to "cure foreigners' sex addiction"; to protest Ukraine's mud-slinging politicians they mud-wrestled in the street.
As one of the group's founders told "Spiegel," "if we were to run around dressed in baggy clothes no one would pay any attention to us."
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
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