HANOVER, April 10 - RAPSI. The activists of the German branch of Femen, who staged a topless protest during President Vladimir Putin's visit to a trade fair in Hanover, will have to wait at least six weeks to be tried, Kommersant wrote on Wednesday, citing Kathrin Soefker, a Hanover prosecutor.

An investigation has only just been launched on charges of publically insulting government officials and representatives of foreign states, which is punishable by three years in prison, or five in cases of slander.

However, the Hanover police said the young women are likely to get off with a small fine. According to Kommersant, the protest was staged by five women, aged from 19 to 33, three of them German citizens and two Ukrainians. The five activists have been released, but only the Ukrainian citizens were released on bail.

On April 8, four topless women with obscenities daubed on their breasts in English and Russian broke through security as President Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were looking at a stand at an industry fair in Hanover.