Blonde Ukrainan Greenpeace activist faces deportation over nude posters

A Greenpeace activist in Ukraine faces deportation after she posed naked for a series of environmental awareness posters.

Oksana Golubova, a beautiful blonde and head of the local Greenpeace office in Ukraine's largest seaside resort area of Crimea, was attempting to protect the peninsula's nature from careless tourist attitude.

The girl posed as a model for a series of posters together with dead animals and birds. The message she intended to send to the world was human holidays are a threat to nature, the Express Gazeta newspaper reports.

However instead of feeling guilty, the authorities and residents of the peninsula, where tourism is the only source of income, cracked down on the activist herself. She was accused of being immoral, unpatriotic and of trying to ruin the region's economy.

If Golubova continues her agitation, Crimea's Prime Minister Viktor Plakida has said, he will personally see that she gets deported from the peninsula.

Oksana, who did not expect such an emotional reaction, tries to leave house as rarely as possible.

"I just wanted to make people who come to spend their holidays in the Crimea treat its nature with more consideration," Oksana says.

"I wanted to stop the authorities from pouring sewage into the sea. But unfortunately people care more about drawing money from tourists than about leaving a clean sea to their children."

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Today in history - Nov. 3

The Associated Press

Today is Friday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2006. There are 58 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

Twenty years ago, on Nov. 3, 1986, the Iran-Contra affair began to come to light as Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran.

On this date:

In 1839, the first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.

In 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour.

In 1896, Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan for the presidency.

In 1903, Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.

In 1908, Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling William Jennings Bryan.

In 1936, President Roosevelt won a landslide election victory over Republican challenger Alfred M. "Alf" Landon.

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite, into orbit; on board was a dog named "Laika" who was sacrificed in the experiment.

In 1964, President Johnson soundly defeated Republican challenger Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right.

In 1970, Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of Chile.

In 1979, five radicals were killed when gunfire erupted during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Greensboro, N.C., after a caravan of Klansmen and neo-Nazis had driven into the area.

Ten years ago: American entrepreneur Paul Tatum was shot to death on the steps of a Moscow subway station in what his relatives suspected was a contract slaying by the Russian mafia; the case remains unsolved.

Five years ago: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met with his Russian counterpart in Moscow to discuss nuclear arsenal cuts, American plans for a missile defense system, and U.S.-Russian cooperation in the campaign against terror. The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees 15-2 to tie the World Series at three games apiece.

One year ago: Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, pleaded not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. The European Union said it would investigate reports the CIA had set up secret jails in Eastern Europe to interrogate terror suspects. Merck & Co. won its first court battle over its Vioxx painkiller when a New Jersey state jury found the drug maker had properly warned consumers about the risks of the medication.

Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Bob Feller is 88. Actress Lois Smith is 76. Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is 73. Actor-dancer Ken Berry is 73. Movie composer John Barry is 73. Actor Shadoe Stevens is 60. Singer Lulu is 58. Actor Mike Evans is 57. Comedian-actress Roseanne Barr is 54. Actress Kate Capshaw is 53. Comedian Dennis Miller is 53. Actress Kathy Kinney is 53. Singer Adam Ant is 52.

Thought for Today: "Among these things but one thing seems certain — that nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable or more presumptuous than man." — Pliny the Elder, Roman scholar (A.D. 23-A.D. 79).

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