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U.N. body calls for women to have meaningful role in peace talks
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Dmitry Kostyukov, a former AFP photographer from Russia, speaks with media after a court session in Kiev
Dmitry Kostyukov, a former AFP photographer from Russia, speaks with media after a court session in Kiev July 28, 2013. The Femen group says its activists were beaten up and kidnapped pre-emptively when they were on their way to protest against the baptism celebrations and visits by Putin and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill. Ukrainian law enforcers did their best to shield Putin from the famous local - and now internationally active - topless protesters from the Femen women's rights group. Kiev police said on Saturday they had detained three Femen activists and a photographer from Russia who was with them, as they posed for pictures in public, bare to the waist. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
Activists from women's rights group FEMEN and former AFP photographer from Russia Kostyukov speak with media after a court session in Kiev
Activists from women's rights group FEMEN and former AFP photographer from Russia Dmitry Kostyukov (L) speak with media after a court session in Kiev July 28, 2013. The Femen group says its activists were beaten up and kidnapped pre-emptively when they were on their way to protest against the baptism celebrations and visits by Putin and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill. Ukrainian law enforcers did their best to shield Putin from the famous local - and now internationally active - topless protesters from the Femen women's rights group. Kiev police said on Saturday they had detained three Femen activists and a photographer from Russia who was with them, as they posed for pictures in public, bare to the waist. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
Activists from women's rights group FEMEN and former AFP photographer from Russia Kostyukov look out from a window during a court session in Kiev
Activists from women's rights group FEMEN and former AFP photographer from Russia Dmitry Kostyukov (R) look out from a window during a court session in Kiev July 28, 2013. The Femen group says its activists were beaten up and kidnapped pre-emptively when they were on their way to protest against the baptism celebrations and visits by Putin and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill. Ukrainian law enforcers did their best to shield Putin from the famous local - and now internationally active - topless protesters from the Femen women's rights group. Kiev police said on Saturday they had detained three Femen activists and a photographer from Russia who was with them, as they posed for pictures in public, bare to the waist. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)