ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Two more of the 30 people arrested by Russia following a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic in September have been freed on bail.
Rulings by judges in St. Petersburg this week to grant bail could moderate the international criticism of Russia over the case.
Two Russians – photographer Denis Sinyakov and activist Andrei Allakhverdov – walked out of a detention centre today.
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A Canadian activist, Paul Ruzycki of Port Colborne, Ont., was granted bail Tuesday. A bail hearing for a second Canadian, Alexandre Paul of Montreal, was scheduled for today.
The 30 were arrested after a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, entered Arctic waters despite Russian warnings.
Some of the activists tried to scale an offshore drilling platform owned by the state natural gas giant Gazprom.
-With files from The Canadian Press.
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