Alexandra Shevchenko

Overview

Alexandra Shevchenko born Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine April 24, 1986. Co-founded FEMEN ("Feminism’s shock troops"), 2008. Arrested five times for bare-breasted protests in Ukraine, Belarus, France, Italy, Germany. Confronted Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel, Hamburg, 2013; arrested for topless protest, Crimea, 2014.

Quotations

"It was non-violent women protesting against the most dangerous dictator in the world." (The Guardian, April 12, 2013)