“They can kill you in one second, you understand that you are a very very small person. But in the same time one thinks: you are a small person that can make such a big point that even Russia will send their secret service after you!”

Interview with Luxemburger Wort (2015)

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Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN 1987–2018

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