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Ukrainian protester rushes at Patriarch

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Thursday 26 July 2012 22:25 BST
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A bare-breasted activist from the Ukrainian women's rights movement Femen tried to attack the Russian Orthodox Church's leader yesterday to protest about alleged anti-Ukrainian policies by the Church and the Kremlin.

The woman, with the words "Kill Kirill" written on her back, got within feet of Patriarch Kirill at Kiev's airport, but was stopped and detained by a security guard and a priest.

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