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UPDATE-25 foreigners among Arctic 30 leave Russia

St Petersburg, 28 December 2013 – Twenty-five of the 26 foreigners among the Arctic 30 have left Russia for home. The last activist will leave the country on Sunday. The first of the non-Russian nationals left the country on Thursday, followed by 24 others on Friday, 100 days since the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise …

Arctic 30 activist detained until February by Russian court

Amsterdam, 18 November 2013 – A court in St Petersburg has ruled that a Greenpeace International activist could remain in jail in Russia until at least February. A further four activists and two freelance journalists – all members of so-called ‘Arctic 30’ – face hearings today, with Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee applying for extensions to …