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A handout picture taken on October 2, 2013 and released by Greenpeace International shows Greenpeace activist Sini Saarela from Finland being escorted in a court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk. (Dmitri Sharomov / Greenpeace / AFP)

Russia Society Society (Russia)

Russia charges five Greenpeace activists with piracy; more charges expected

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 09:56
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Greenpeace said Wednesday that five of its activists who were detained after protesting at a Russian oil platform have

This image made available by Greenpeace shows five activists attempting to climb the Prirazlomnaya, an oil platform operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. (Denis Sinyakov, Greenpeace/The Associated Press)

Environment Environment (Russia) Russia

Russian probe: Greenpeace activists posed ‘real threat’ to Arctic oil platform

The Associated Press
Posted: Monday, September 30, 2013 at 16:05
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Russia’s investigative agency says Greenpeace activists posed a “real threat” to the security of personnel on an offshore drilling platform in the