Add to favorite
 
Subscribe to our Newsletters Subscribe to our Newsletters Get Daily Updates RSS

Greenpeace Activists Arrested Over Action near Gazprom Office
6.09.2012 13:44
Greenpeace Activists Arrested Over Action near Gazprom Office
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=504732C70F812

Ten activists from Greenpeace environmental organization were arrested on Wednesday after a demonstration outside the Moscow office of Gazprom.

      The activists, four of them are foreigners, were dressed like polar bears, blocking the entrance to the Gazprom office during the demonstration against oil and gas projects in the Arctic.

      The activists set up an improvised Arctic reserve, pitched tents on the snow and chained themselves to the fence. The action lasted about an hour, then the activists were arrested and taken to the district police station.

      They are charged under Part 2 of Article 20 of the Code on Administrative Offenses, violation of the rules on public events.

      At the end of August, six activists occupied the "Prirazlomnaya" oil drilling platform in the Pechora Sea to protest against drilling for oil in the Arctic. They were forced to end the protest when sailors aboard the ship doused them with high-pressure water cannons.


Author: Julia Alieva

Tags: Gazprom Greenpeace Russian oil companies protest actions  

Next Previous


You might also find interesting:








Comment on our site


RSS   twitter      submit


Ïàðòåð


TAGS:
Manifesta  Leo Tolstoy  Exhibitions in Moscow  Russian directors  flooding in Moscow  Russian scientists  Alexander Pushkin  Russian tourism  Sergey Revin  Vostok Energy  Znamensk  Russian sport  Musa Jalil  Multimedia  Russian opera singers  fountain  Russian language  Russian economy  St. Petersburg  Chelyabinsk meteorite  Wooden Architecture  St. Petersburg Museums  Russian business  Russian natural reserves  Baksan  Beringia  Museums of Writers  ecology  The Strugatsky Brothers  Archeological Pavillions  Moscow  Russian sports  Vladimir  Russian businessmen  Russian Cinema  Russian science  Space Exploration  Moscow Museum of Modern Art  Ice Sculptures  Russian geography  Orthodoxy  war in Ukraine  Historical Background  Graphic Art  Craters  Maria Sharapova  Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia  Traffic Police  Moscow Photographic Salon  poll 


Travel Blogs
Top Traveling Sites