Yana Zhdanova is an activist, artist, choreographer, feminist and sextremist, born in 1988 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Zhdanova holds a diploma in psychology with specialisation in gender based violences from Université Paris Cité. Since 2009 she has been an active member of the radical protest group Femen. She has participated in many high-profile actions, including topless protests against sexual exploitation and objectification of women such as: Ukraine is not a brothel (Kyiv, 2009), Stop domestic violence (Istanbul, 2012), Kill Kirill (Kyiv 2012) as well as political protests against the Russian government - Respect, KGB, UEFA (Kyiv 2012), Stop Dictator (Kyiv 2013), Putin is the killer of democracy (Brussels 2013), Yanukovych piss off! (Paris 2013), Fuck you Putin! No Mistrals for you! (Saint-Nazaire 2014), Kill Putin (Musée Grevin, Paris 2014), Putin go home (Budapest 2015). Since 2014 Zhdanova has been a political refugee in France. The consequence of Zhdanova's assault on the Putin's wax statue at the Grevin museum in Paris gave place to «The Zhdanova jurisprudence » (number 35/26-2-2020).