epa03363669 An activist of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen cuts a cross during their action in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, 17 August 2012. Femen said the protest was intended to show support to members of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot, who are on trial in Moscow for entering a Russian Orthodox cathedral and singing a song insulting to President Vladimir Putin. The three defendants face a potential seven year jail sentence if found guilty of inflaming religious hatred. The cross cut down by the Femen activists is a well-known memorial erected in the Ukrainian capital to the memory of victims of Soviet repressions in the 1930s. More than six million Ukrainians died as the result of forced starvation and executions by police during the regime of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Femen is a minor Ukrainian political action group whose members, usually young women, attempts to draw attention to its causes by taking their clothes off in public. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO