Four young women naked from the waist up barged into a Ukrainian polling station on Sunday and held a rowdy protest just before a candidate in the country’s presidential election cast his ballot there.

The women, members of a small feminist group called Femen known for staging eye-catching protests, were hustled out of the Kiev polling station by security guards before Viktor Yanukovich showed up to vote, an AFP photographer saw.

“Enough raping our democracy!” shouted the protesters, who held signs with slogans such as “Help! Rape!” and wore nothing except for jeans and strips of green electrical tape over their nipples.

The women told reporters they were protesting “the end of democracy” in Ukraine and not specifically against Yanukovich or in favour of his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The two candidates fought a bitter election campaign and many Ukrainians said they were with frustrated with the choice, amid deep disillusionment with the country’s protracted political stalemate and economic crisis.

Femen, whose members were mostly university students, drew international attention last summer by holding a protest against Ukraine’s sex tourism trade where activists picketed in central Kiev wearing bras and panties.

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FEMEN protested the death sentence given to Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani at the opening ceremony for an event promoting Iranian culture on Thursday Nov. 11 2010 in Kyiv.

FEMEN said the Iranian ambassador did not come to us at the embassy we had to come to him and tore off the opening week of Iranian culture in Ukraine.

The event that the group targeted Thursday was part of a cultural exchange program launched by Iran’s embassy in Kiev a day earlier, called ‘Week of Iranian Culture in Ukraine

The protest is aimed at drawing attention to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery and participation in her husband’s killing.

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Three activists of the movement FEMEN organized a protest against the adoption of the pension reform by the Ukrainian parliament near the parliament building on Tuesday.

The topless girls, who had wreaths on their heads, ran in front of the central entrance to the parliament building, shouting “Down with Bull Reform!” They were holding red placards saying “Rada Is Bullpen.”

After being detained by the police, the activists continued chanting their slogans and demanded their release.

Some time later, the girls were put in a police car and taken away. The police said the women had been detained for violating public order.

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Guys will definitely appreciate these photos a lot more than girls, but I’m sure we can all agree the Ukrainian FEMEN group can protest in the most original way.

If you didn’t know anything about FEMEN, they are a group of women from the Ukraine, who protest in the most unusual ways, in order to raise awarness to feminist issues in their country. In an attempt to draw attention on the plight of Ukrainian prostitutes, the group’s members dressed-up as nurses “to cure foreigners of sex-addiction”

On November 9, 2009, the sexy members of FEMEN attracted quite a crowd in Kyiv square, when they appeared dressed in underwear made from swine flu masks. This was their way of protesting against authorities using the flu outbreak to scare citizens before Ukraine’s presidential elections, on January 17.

FEMEN members ackowledged it’s their sexiness that draws attention and admits most people would ignore their protests if they were wearing normal clothes.

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