Activists from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen cut down a wooden crucifix in the center of Kiev -- Ukraine's capital -- yesterday (August 17, 2012) in support of members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, the RIA Novosti (Russian) website reports today.
A video posted online showed a topless blond Femen protester wearing red shorts -- with the words "Free Riot" scrawled across her chest -- cutting the cross with a chainsaw and then pulling it down using a rope pulled by two other activists.
The cross was put up on a high hill near Kiev's downtown Independence Square during the 2004 pro-Democracy Orange Revolution to commemorate the victims of political repression under Joseph Stalin.
The activists warned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia that they would "turn the blade of our chainsaw" against those "responsible for the suffering of innocent women."
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