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Oksana Shachko (Ukrainian: Оксана Шачко; 31 January 1987, Khmelnytskyi – 23 July 2018, Paris) was a Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN. She was one of the founders of FEMEN in April 2008, along with Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko. Shachko had been born in Khmelnytskyi but had moved to Kiev. FEMEN initially protested about issues affecting women students, but rapidly moved on to demonstrating against the sexual exploitation of Ukrainian women. and against sex tourism in 2008. Initially Femen gained attention by demonstrating while dressed in underwear: however, in August 2009 Shachko bared her breasts at
Oksana Shachko (Ukrainian: Оксана Шачко; 31 January 1987, Khmelnytskyi – 23 July 2018, Paris) was a Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN. She was one of the founders of FEMEN in April 2008, along with Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko. Shachko had been born in Khmelnytskyi but had moved to Kiev. FEMEN initially protested about issues affecting women students, but rapidly moved on to demonstrating against the sexual exploitation of Ukrainian women. and against sex tourism in 2008. Initially Femen gained attention by demonstrating while dressed in underwear: however, in August 2009 Shachko bared her breasts at a protest in Kiev. Since then FEMEN activists have regularly protested ‘topless’, and broadened their agenda to women's rights and civil rights in Ukraine and around the world. Shachko co-operated with French writer Galia Ackerman who produced a history of 'FEMEN' which was published by Calmann-Lévy in 2013. In 2014 was released "Je suis Femen" (I am Femen), awarded documentary about Oksana Shachko, by film maker Alain Margot. France granted her political refugee status in 2013. She lived in Paris as a painter.
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