1. Inna Shevchenko was the leader of the three FEMEN activists reputedly kidnapped and threatened by the Belarus KGB in 2011.
18 Facts About Inna Shevchenko
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Inna Shevchenko achieved attention in Ukraine by cutting with a chainsaw and then bringing down a 4-metre high Christian cross in central Kyiv in 2012.
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In 2013, Inna Shevchenko was granted asylum in France, and now continues her activism by leading FEMEN France from a training base she has established in Paris.
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In July 2013, Olivier Ciappa, who together with David Kawena designed a new French stamp depicting Marianne, stated on Twitter that Inna Shevchenko had been the main inspiration for the depiction.
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Inna Shevchenko was born in Kherson near the Black Sea, on 23 June 1990.
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Inna Shevchenko was a 'patsanka' and was especially close to her father who was a military officer.
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Inna Shevchenko went to university at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv from 2008 until 2012 where she studied journalism and graduated with honours.
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Inna Shevchenko made contact with two leading FEMEN activists Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Inna Shevchenko through the social networking site vKontakte and joined FEMEN early in 2009.
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Inna Shevchenko first demonstrated with FEMEN on 23 May 2009 in Kyiv, against prostitution and under the banner, "Ukraine is not a Brothel", in collaboration with DJ Hell.
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Inna Shevchenko was fired from her job in the Kyiv Mayor's press office after her arrest for taking part in a protest against the absence of women in Prime Minister Mykola Azarov's cabinet in December 2010.
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On 8 September 2012, Inna Shevchenko cut down wooden crosses at GOGBOT festival in Enschede, the Netherlands, as a protest on the arrest of Pussy Riot.
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In July 2013, Olivier Ciappa, who together with David Kawena designed a new French stamp depicting Marianne, stated on Twitter that Inna Shevchenko had been the main inspiration for the depiction.
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Inna Shevchenko is a speaker at conferences and a columnist for the international press.
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Inna Shevchenko was a speaker at a debate on the freedom of speech in Copenhagen on 14 February 2015 with cartoonist Lars Vilks.
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Inna Shevchenko was speaking about an illusion that in Western Europe people can fully enjoy freedom of speech when a terrorist opened fire in the lobby of the cultural centre, where the debates took place.
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Inna Shevchenko's TEDxKalamata talk is entitled "I will not stop speaking out loud".
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Inna Shevchenko is a columnist for International Business Times Her articles were published in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and CNN.
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Together with other FEMEN activists, Shevchenko wrote FEMEN: Manifeste and Rebellion In 2017 Inna Shevchenko has published Anatomie de l'oppression with Pauline Hillier in Edition du Seuil.