AAP: Australian activist Colin Russell could be home in time for new year if Russian authorities grant the Greenpeace campaigner an exit visa on Friday.
Russell, 59, is one of 30 activists arrested and detained in September for protesting against a Russian oil rig operated by the Moscow-based energy company Gazprom in the Pechora Sea.
Known as the Arctic 30, the group, made up of 28 Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists, was accused of hooliganism.
But the charges were dropped last...