Ukraine: photos of secret "Moscow" summit

Wisdom Quarterly (eds.); FEMEN; Robert Krulwich, photographer Vitaliy Raskalov (NPR)

Deva and topless protester in Ukraine sends [censored] message to Pres. Putin (femen.org)

A view from the summit of Moscow Bridge, Kiev, Ukraine (Vitaliy Raskalov)

 

The view from the top of Shanghai (VR)

Okay, this isn't that kind of summit. Putin wasn't there. It was the literal kind of summit, as in the verb for "to climb." And this one was so gripping, so breathless, so crazy, so illegal that I think everyone is going to forgive me as you all watch four freestyle climbers doing this amazingly unsafe thing. Here's their leader (or, at any rate, his feet).

We're bored, bored like crazy. This is exciting.

It's Vitaliy Raskalov, dangling in the clouds from a skyscraper in Shanghai, China. The summiting I'm talking about, however, took place in Ukraine, in Kiev, with Vitaliy and a team of three.
More (plus video)

• AUDIO: Is Putin "insane" or "Hitler," as Clinton called him? Masha Gessen (who writes about Russia's Putin and Pussy Riot) on Morning Edition (NPR.org, March 15, 2014)
• AUDIO: After prison, Pussy Riot keeps protesting gov't

Bored daredevil making a bold statement: "Hey, check this out, dude"! (Vitaliy Raskalov)

FEMEN activists going topless to protest Putin and Russia in Ukraine/Crimea (femen.org)

 

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