Dutch-flagged Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise was seized by Russian border guards on September 19 within Russia's exclusive economic zone, a day after two Greenpeace activists scaled a drilling rig in the Pechora Sea, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea. Federal investigators have initially launched a maritime piracy case against the vessel’s crew.
A Russian court ruled to put a group of foreign and Russian Greenpeace activists behind bars for two months over their protest at an offshore oil drilling platform in the Arctic.
A Russian court ruled to put a group of foreign and Russian Greenpeace activists behind bars for two months. Greenpeace activist from Canada Paul Ruzycki was among those detained.
A Russian court ruled to put a group of foreign and Russian Greenpeace activists behind bars for two months. Greenpeace activist Roman Dolgov was among those detained.
A Russian court ruled to put a group of foreign and Russian Greenpeace activists behind bars for two months. Greenpeace freelance photographer Denis Sinyakov was among those detained.
A Russian court ruled to put a group of foreign and Russian Greenpeace activists behind bars for two months. The American captain of the Greenpeace ship 'Arctic Sunrise' Peter Willcox was among those detained.
