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A founding member of the prominent protest group Femen, Oksana Shachko, has died in Paris in an apparent suicide, fellow members say.

Femen co-founder Anna Hutsol confirmed Shachko’s death to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service on July 24, following reports that her body was found in her Paris apartment the previous day.

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