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"  Diplomacy didn&amp;#039;t work. Protests didn&amp;#039;t, either. So since Russia is turning a blind eye toward global efforts to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin&amp;#039;s actions (namely, annexing Crimea), a group of Ukrainian women thought of a way to really get the country&amp;#039;s attention: by launching a campaign to deny sex from Russian citizens. The group, which mainly consists of female Ukrainian journalists and activists, is spreading awareness via T-shirts, sold on their Facebook group page. The catchphrase? &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t give it to a Russian.&amp;quot; The slogan is stamped underneath an illustration of hands creating a suggestively vaginal image, along with a line by a Ukrainian poet that reads &amp;quot;O dark-browed maidens fall in love, but not with the Moskals [Russians].&amp;quot; According to Foreign Policy, the founders of the campaign were inspired by historical acts of celibacy protest, such as the Liberian Civil War and even as mythically portrayed in Lysistrata, Aristophane&amp;#039;s Greek play about the Peloponnesian War. &amp;quot;In addition, we want to make it clear that Ukrainian women prefer Ukrainian men,&amp;quot; said group co-founder Katerina Venzhik. It was surely only to be expected, but there has already been backlash since the campaign went viral. According to Foreign Policy, Russians have called the women behind the $23 shirts &amp;quot;prostitutes&amp;quot; (which makes no sense, since that&amp;#039;s the opposite sentiment of what the campaign suggests). But creativity and feminine power that lightheartedly draws attention to a dark situation? We&amp;#039;re all for it. Related: 7 Ukrainian Women Share Their Stories from the Front Lines Related: Women Stand at the Front Lines of the Euromaiden Protest in Kiev "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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