essayel pointed me to this

[yakalskovich]

Asgarda -- organisation of armed women in the Ukraine.

It sounds a bit iffy, if not fascistoid: - but not if you know that they're doing it to defend themselves and their friends from being sold into forced prostitution in western Europe...

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

A+ for the land of my ancestors being full of badassery :D

[yakalskovich]

They do look a bit like video game badasses, influenced by Japanese martial arts (look at the bare feet!), but they DO seem to kick ass, and a double FTW for their motivation!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had no idea.

[yakalskovich]

Neither did I, until Sal pointed me to the article, hence the blog post.-