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Putin calls Russia response to Greenpeace Arctic protest a lesson
2013-12-19 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia's response to a Greenpeace protest over Arctic oil drilling should serve as a lesson and Moscow would toughen steps to guard against interference in its development of the region. Putin suggested Greenpeace activists detained for a protest at a drilling platform operated by state-controlled Gazprom in September may have been carrying out an order to undermine Russia's development of Arctic energy resources. "Why was this (protest) carried out?...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron may speak to Vladimir Putin directly over Arctic 30 arrests
2013-10-28 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron is prepared to consider contacting Vladimir Putin directly to raise the "very serious issue" of the six Britons who have been detained in Russia following a Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic last month. The prime minister told parliament he would personally speak to the Russian president if it would help the plight of the detainees, who learnt last week that the authorities had decided to downgrade their charges from piracy to hooliganism. One of the British...
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Merkel pressures Putin over arrests
2013-10-17 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: German chancellor Angela Merkel told Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday of her concerns over the arrest of Greenpeace activists after an Arctic drilling protest, and urged a swift resolution of the case. The 30 environmentalists have been held on piracy charges since trying to scale the Prirazlomnoye oil rig on 18 September. Merkel's spokesman said in a statement: "The chancellor expressed her concern to Putin over the arrest of the crew of the Greenpeace boat, impounded in Russia,...
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Greenpeace activists are not pirates. Even Putin knows that
2013-10-03 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
John Sauven: Twenty-eight Greenpeace activists from 18 different countries, and two independent journalists, have been charged in Russia with piracy with a maximum 15 years in prison. This is despite president Putin saying last week: "Obviously, they are not pirates". But what is obvious to Putin, speaking in front of the world's press at an Arctic Forum, may become obscured within the labyrinth of the Russian legal system. Greenpeace has been taking direct action at sea for 42 years and in the Russian Arctic...
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Putin defends seizure of activists ship but questions piracy charges
2013-09-26 14:37:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Vladimir V. Putin said Wednesday that the Russian authorities were justified in seizing a Greenpeace International ship at an offshore oil platform in the Arctic last week, but he questioned whether the activities of the ships 30 crew members warranted the piracy charges that Russian authorities said they would pursue. I dont know the details of what happened there, Mr. Putin said here at an international conference on the Arctic, but obviously they are not pirates. However, formally,...
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