Bemused Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel confronted by topless Femen protester

[Stelio Kontos]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-Hanover.html

The Russian president was confronted by a topless protester with an obscene slogan insulting Mr Putin painted on her back - and, he admitted, he “liked” it.
Mr Putin was with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at at a trade fair in Hanover when the woman tried to push her way through to an amused-looking Mr Putin, but was blocked by aides. Her back was painted with an obscene slogan in Cyrillic script directed against the Russian president.

The activist was with two other women who also stripped to the waist and shouted slogans calling the Russian leader a “dictator”.

The women appeared to be members of the feminist group Femen, which has staged topless protests against the sex industry and religious institutions.
Speaking at a press conference afterwards, Mr Putin said: “As for the protest, I liked it. In principle, we knew that such a protest was being prepared.”

He said the organisers of the Hanover event should “say thank you to the Ukrainian girls, they helped you promote the trade fair.”
He added: “To be honest, I didn’t really hear what they were shouting because the security [guards] were very tough. These huge guys fell on the lasses. That seemed not right to me, they could have been handled more gently.”

Mr Putin appeared to show a flash of his well-known salty humour, adding: “I didn’t make out whether they were blondes, chestnut-haired or brunettes.”
The Russian president said protests by Femen activists were nothing new. “We’ve all got used to these demonstrations and I don’t see anything terrible here,” he said.

However, he added: “If someone wants to debate political questions, then it’s better to do it clothed rather than getting undressed. You should undress in other places, such as on nudist beaches.”

On their Facebook page, Femen said the protest was an “anti-dictatorial attack on Putin”. The group criticised the Kremlin, Russia’s Federal Security Service and the Russian Orthodox Church, saying that Femen was against “dictatorship, homophobia and theocracy”.
Femen protests have included burning a Salafist flag in front of the Grand Mosque in Paris, and chopping down an Orthodox cross with a chainsaw.
The group has criticized Mr Putin over the arrest and conviction of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral last year.

Russia has urged German authorities to punish the protesters. “This is ordinary hooliganism and unfortunately it happens all over the world, in any city. One needs to punish (them),” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The trade fair in Hanover, which opened on Sunday, features exhibitors from more than 60 countries. Relations between Russia and Germany have come under strain recently over the Kremlin’s harsh line on opposition groups and non-governmental organisations, including raids on the offices of two German NGOs in Moscow and St Petersburg.

At the opening of the fair on Sunday, Mrs Merkel that Moscow should give “non-governmental organizations - the many groups that we in Germany know as motors of innovation - a good chance in Russia.”

Mr Putin was in Hanover to open the fair, where Russia has a pavilion, and hold talks with Mrs Merkel.
Later on Monday he will travel to Holland. He is expected to be met by gay rights activists protesting over recently introduced Russian legislation which bans “homosexual propaganda” among minors. The law, in effect in several regions, has been widely criticised as homophobic.

His response is just great. My hero.

[Wilian]

Fucking FEMEN. I hope all of them will be deported to Pakistan/Syria/Iran where they can make their case.

[Sunseeker]

God that is such a "OOOOOO boobies!" face.

[obdigore]

God that is such a "OOOOOO boobies!" face.

See him bring his hands up to cup them? He was thinking 'This Merkel got me a present!'

[Stelio Kontos]

See him bring his hands up to cup them? He was thinking 'This Merkel got me a present!'

Looks like h's literally giving her a double thumbs up to me. Either way he's golden.

[rnbwtrout]

Fucking FEMEN. I hope all of them will be deported to Pakistan/Syria/Iran where they can make their case.

you can send them all to america. come on FEMEN, im sure Obama's done something you don't agree with. get them shirts off and go protest!!!!!

[Gandrake]

The Russian president was confronted by a topless protester with an obscene slogan insulting Mr Putin painted on her back - and, he admitted, he “liked” it.

Who doesn't like seeing boobies?

you can send them all to america. come on FEMEN, im sure Obama's done something you don't agree with. get them shirts off and go protest!!!!!

with our luck they'd only send us the fat ones

do they even have fat chicks in femen? what's the significance of having cute girls show their breasts to everyone?

[TidesOfBlood]

His face is priceless hahahaha.

[obdigore]

do they even have fat chicks in femen? what's the significance of having cute girls show their breasts to everyone?

It got a thread made here, didn't it?

Attention perhaps?

[Wilian]

do they even have fat chicks in femen? what's the significance of having cute girls show their breasts to everyone?

Their facial features tend to be quite degenerate which suits their level of intelligence quite well. They aren't that pretty of a sight.

[Deleted]

I wish the camera angle had been reversed. That way i wouldn't have to see that criminal's mug, and could see boobies.

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Fucking FEMEN. I hope all of them will be deported to Pakistan/Syria/Iran where they can make their case.

Because Ukranian women are being opressed by Pakistan/Syria/Iran, amirite?

[Frostys99]

Yeah, he just gave them the double thumbs up.

[Mormolyce]

Yeah, he just gave them the double thumbs up.

Which means he will permit both breasts to live.

[Cybran]

Their facial features tend to be quite degenerate which suits their level of intelligence quite well. They aren't that pretty of a sight.

Sounds like someone is jealous.

Jokes aside, Putin is KGB who got rich during the shadiest period of post communist Europe. He is linked to organized crime, oligarchy and corrupt politicians. Femen have every right to protest him, but what is their beef with theocracy?

[Stelio Kontos]

Sounds like someone is jealous.

Jokes aside, Putin is KGB who got rich during the shadiest period of post communist Europe. He is linked to organized crime, oligarchy and corrupt politicians. Femen have every right to protest him, but what is their beef with theocracy?

They're strong proud womyn protesting patriarchy.

Or something.

The slags even cut down with a chainsaw a cross put up in the Ukraine to honor those who died under Stalin's rule.

Real class acts.

[obdigore]

They're strong proud womyn protesting patriarchy.

Or something.

The slags even cut down with a chainsaw a cross put up in the Ukraine to honor those who died under Stalin's rule.

Real class acts.

I'm not sure calling women 'slags' is going to convince anyone your opinion should be respected.

[Ravenblade]

So, idi nakhuy Putin, eh? I don't think I have ever seen a more scary political message. Ah well, at least he's got his own entertainment out of it.

[Stelio Kontos]

I'm not sure calling women 'slags' is going to convince anyone your opinion should be respected.

Oh no, not respected? Whatever shall I do?

Either way, they still desecrated a holodomor memorial for no reason beyond their deluded agenda.

[Cybran]

So, idi nakhuy Putin, eh? I don't think I have ever seen a more scary political message. Ah well, at least he's got his own entertainment out of it.

It means "Fuck yourself" or "Jump on a dick". Really classy.

On second thought, it could have to do with his name meaning vagina in Russian (it actually means "path", but people still make jokes about his name).

[Deleted]

Sounds like someone is jealous.

Jokes aside, Putin is KGB who got rich during the shadiest period of post communist Europe. He is linked to organized crime, oligarchy and corrupt politicians. Femen have every right to protest him, but what is their beef with theocracy?

Any sources for that? Apart useless western propaganda?