Notorious Ukrainian movement FEMEN on Monday held under the walls of the Georgian Embassy in Kiev, a theatrical protest, "Photohunt" in support of the detainees in the country on suspicion of spying photographers, which ended in a scuffle with an employee of a diplomatic mission. Photographer's press-service of the President of Georgia Irakli Gedenidze, his wife, photographer Natia Gedenidze, European photo agency photographer EPA Zurab Kurtsikidze and photographer George Abdaladze, who has worked in publishing, "Alia Holding", and worked under contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and was a stringer Associated Press, were detained Department of the Georgian Interior Ministry Intelligence July 7 on charges of spying for Russia. Representatives came to share FEMEN topless, fake cameras, and with the inscription «press» in shorts. They held a placard with the words crossed out with a camera and «No photo – no democracy» (no pictures – there is no democracy). At this time of the Embassy of Georgia man came out and did not introduce themselves, began to disperse activists, pushing their hands, and then paid a verbal and physical abuse reporters, demanding to stop shooting. Ukrainian media reported that the employee broke the Georgian embassy, in particular, a journalist with the publication "Comments" Alexander Yamkovogo. "The Embassy of Georgia in Kiev expresses its regret over the incident on July 18 before the shares of the Embassy, when working at the embassy contract a security guard paid to participants and physical abuse of press photographers" – said in a statement. Embassy of Georgia apologized to the protesters, journalists and the public in Ukraine.
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