epa02559769 Members of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN shout slogans during a protest on a balcony of apartment building in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 February 2011. FEMEN activist went topless on to protest a government plan to beautify apartment balconies in game cities as part of Euro 2012 preparations. Ten representatives of Femen, an NGO supporting western-style political reforms, stripped down to their underwear and braved temperatures five degrees below freezing while demonstrating against the idea from a high-rise balcony overlooking the Khreschatyk, the main street of the capital Kiev. The protest came in response to a Kiev city initiative made public on 31 January, suggesting the government ban of the use of apartment building balconies for drying wet attire on clotheslines, or for storage of apartment owner personal property. Four Ukrainian cities, all densely-populated, have been selected as game venues for Euro 2012. Ukrainians have used their apartment balconies for drying clothes and storage sites for decades, because of space shortages and traditionally low use of clothes dryers. A blanket order mandating all Ukrainians living near game sites should clean up their balconies could affect more than a million persons, according to media reports. Protesters hold placard reading; 'Balconies are to the people!'? Private property!', and 'Mutinous Little Balcony'. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
epa02559769 Members of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN shout slogans during a protest on a balcony of apartment building in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 February 2011. FEMEN activist went topless on to protest a government plan to beautify apartment balconies in game cities as part of Euro 2012 preparations. Ten representatives of Femen, an NGO supporting western-style political reforms, stripped down to their underwear and braved temperatures five degrees below freezing while demonstrating against the idea from a high-rise balcony overlooking the Khreschatyk, the main street of the capital Kiev. The protest came in response to a Kiev city initiative made public on 31 January, suggesting the government ban of the use of apartment building balconies for drying wet attire on clotheslines, or for storage of apartment owner personal property. Four Ukrainian cities, all densely-populated, have been selected as game venues for Euro 2012. Ukrainians have used their apartment balconies for drying clothes and storage sites for decades, because of space shortages and traditionally low use of clothes dryers. A blanket order mandating all Ukrainians living near game sites should clean up their balconies could affect more than a million persons, according to media reports. Protesters hold placard reading; 'Balconies are to the people!'? Private property!', and 'Mutinous Little Balcony'. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++ © dpa/DPA | dpa
epa02559768 Members of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN shout slogans during a protest on a balcony of apartment building in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 February 2011. FEMEN activist went topless on to protest a government plan to beautify apartment balconies in game cities as part of Euro 2012 preparations. Ten representatives of Femen, an NGO supporting western-style political reforms, stripped down to their underwear and braved temperatures five degrees below freezing while demonstrating against the idea from a high-rise balcony overlooking the Khreschatyk, the main street of the capital Kiev. The protest came in response to a Kiev city initiative made public on 31 January, suggesting the government ban of the use of apartment building balconies for drying wet attire on clotheslines, or for storage of apartment owner personal property. Four Ukrainian cities, all densely-populated, have been selected as game venues for Euro 2012. Ukrainians have used their apartment balconies for drying clothes and storage sites for decades, because of space shortages and traditionally low use of clothes dryers. A blanket order mandating all Ukrainians living near game sites should clean up their balconies could affect more than a million persons, according to media reports. Protesters hold placard reading; 'Balconies are to the people!'? Private property!', and 'Mutinous Little Balcony'. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
epa02559768 Members of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN shout slogans during a protest on a balcony of apartment building in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 February 2011. FEMEN activist went topless on to protest a government plan to beautify apartment balconies in game cities as part of Euro 2012 preparations. Ten representatives of Femen, an NGO supporting western-style political reforms, stripped down to their underwear and braved temperatures five degrees below freezing while demonstrating against the idea from a high-rise balcony overlooking the Khreschatyk, the main street of the capital Kiev. The protest came in response to a Kiev city initiative made public on 31 January, suggesting the government ban of the use of apartment building balconies for drying wet attire on clotheslines, or for storage of apartment owner personal property. Four Ukrainian cities, all densely-populated, have been selected as game venues for Euro 2012. Ukrainians have used their apartment balconies for drying clothes and storage sites for decades, because of space shortages and traditionally low use of clothes dryers. A blanket order mandating all Ukrainians living near game sites should clean up their balconies could affect more than a million persons, according to media reports. Protesters hold placard reading; 'Balconies are to the people!'? Private property!', and 'Mutinous Little Balcony'. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++ © dpa/DPA | dpa
epa02559767 Members of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN shout slogans during a protest on a balcony of apartment building in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 February 2011. FEMEN activist went topless on to protest a government plan to beautify apartment balconies in game cities as part of Euro 2012 preparations. Ten representatives of Femen, an NGO supporting western-style political reforms, stripped down to their underwear and braved temperatures five degrees below freezing while demonstrating against the idea from a high-rise balcony overlooking the Khreschatyk, the main street of the capital Kiev. The protest came in response to a Kiev city initiative made public on 31 January, suggesting the government ban of the use of apartment building balconies for drying wet attire on clotheslines, or for storage of apartment owner personal property. Four Ukrainian cities, all densely-populated, have been selected as game venues for Euro 2012. Ukrainians have used their apartment balconies for drying clothes and storage sites for decades, because of space shortages and traditionally low use of clothes dryers. A blanket order mandating all Ukrainians living near game sites should clean up their balconies could affect more than a million persons, according to media reports. Protesters hold placard reading; 'Balconies are to the people!'? Private property!', and 'Mutinous Little Balcony'. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
epa02559767 Members of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN shout slogans during a protest on a balcony of apartment building in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 February 2011. FEMEN activist went topless on to protest a government plan to beautify apartment balconies in game cities as part of Euro 2012 preparations. Ten representatives of Femen, an NGO supporting western-style political reforms, stripped down to their underwear and braved temperatures five degrees below freezing while demonstrating against the idea from a high-rise balcony overlooking the Khreschatyk, the main street of the capital Kiev. The protest came in response to a Kiev city initiative made public on 31 January, suggesting the government ban of the use of apartment building balconies for drying wet attire on clotheslines, or for storage of apartment owner personal property. Four Ukrainian cities, all densely-populated, have been selected as game venues for Euro 2012. Ukrainians have used their apartment balconies for drying clothes and storage sites for decades, because of space shortages and traditionally low use of clothes dryers. A blanket order mandating all Ukrainians living near game sites should clean up their balconies could affect more than a million persons, according to media reports. Protesters hold placard reading; 'Balconies are to the people!'? Private property!', and 'Mutinous Little Balcony'. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++ © dpa/DPA | dpa