Simferopol: Two Femen protesters were arrested in Crimea`s capital Simferopol on Thursday after staging a topless demonstration against Russia`s intervention in Ukraine in front of the regional parliament.
One protestor was stopped by police within seconds while another ran around, repeatedly shouting "Stop Putin`s War", which she had also written across her chest.
She was eventually detained and taken away in a van by security forces, while some people who had been watching the protest shouted: "Prostitutes!"
The nationalities of the two young women were not immediately known.
With pro-Russian forces in control of Crimea, the peninsula`s parliament on Thursday set a referendum for March 16 on whether it should become part of Russia.
Lawmakers also asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to examine a request for the region to join the country.
Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine but was part of Russia until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred it to Ukraine as a "gift" in 1954.
The move was largely meaningless during Soviet times, as both Ukraine and Russia were republics in the Soviet Union.
