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Russia detains Greenpeace ship after Arctic protest

2013-09-20 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Russian authorities have detained a Greenpeace ship and threatened to bring criminal charges after activists scaled Russia's first Arctic offshore oil platform. Greenpeace said armed coastguards had forcibly boarded and seized the Arctic Sunrise on Thursday, a day after two activists were plucked from the side of the Prirazlomnaya rig, owned by the state-controlled energy giant Gazprom, and arrested. The Federal Security Service (FSB) said the Amsterdam-registered ship was being towed to Murmansk...

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