Russia vs. Greenpeace: the Battle for the Arctic
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Data: 23.10.2013
Fonte: www.highbrowmagazine.com
An environmental organization with a $350 million war chest, a giant
protest vessel, 28 activists and a rubber raft have succeeded in drawing
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin into a very public global dispute.
Attention is now focused on the Greenpeace activists who were arrested
last month by Coast Guard agents for trying to hang a protest banner on
an Arctic Ocean oil platform and whether they will languish in prison
for up to 15 years each on dubious piracy charges.
"They are obviously not pirates," Putin said in a speech to the
International Arctic Forum last month. Yet Russian authorities so far
seem to be throwing the book at the activists as international outrage
grows to secure their freedom. Protests have been held at Russian
consulates in about a half-dozen cities worldwide to release the
activists.
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Data: 23.10.2013
Fonte: www.highbrowmagazine.com
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