Alexandra Shevchenko

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Alexandra Shevchenko (2012)

Alexandra Shevchenko ( Ukrainian Олександра Шевченко / Olexandra Shevchenko , scientific. Transliteration Oleksandra Shevchenko , Russian Александра Шевченко , scientific. Transliteration Aleksandra Shevchenko ) (* 24. April 1988 in Khmelnitsky , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a prominent activist of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN .

Shevchenko grew up as the only child of a professional soldier and a teacher in Khmelnyzkyj and studied economics there . Together with Hanna Huzol and Oksana Schatschko , she was one of the founders of FEMEN in 2008. In 2012 she lived as an economics student with two other student activists in a shared apartment in Kiev. Shevchenko has been working full-time for FEMEN since the middle of the same year. In 2013 she was involved in setting up the FEMEN group in Berlin , where she lived temporarily. She was involved in many of the organization's activities, including in February 2013 on the occasion of the Berlinale and in April 2013 at the Hanover Fair in the presence of Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel .

Together with other activists from Femen, Shevchenko left Ukraine “out of fear for her life and freedom” in August 2013 and has lived in Paris ever since .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b RTL Fascination Life “Naked Protest - How Young Women Want to Shake Up World Politics”, broadcast on April 29, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Femen leader “In the end there is matriarchy” , zeit.de of June 12, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Vladimir Putin topless protest: Femen activist speaks out , The Daily Telegraph, April 9, 2013
  4. ↑ It was the naked Berlinale provocation , BZ of April 9, 2013
  5. ↑ Response to the raid: Femen activists flee Ukraine , SPON from August 31, 2013
  6. ↑ FEMEN activists flee Ukraine over "political persecution, beatings and threats" , Kyiv Post from August 31, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Shevchenko, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шевченко, Олександра (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian suffragette, activist of the group FEMEN
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Khmelnitsky , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union