Russia Releases Greenpeace Activists From Detention

Six Greenpeace activists - five Britons and one Canadian - have left Russia after being granted amnesty from charges of hooliganism.The activists left Russia Friday after more than two months in detention, in connection with a September protest at a Russian oil rig in the Arctic Sea. Briton Alex Harris told reporters "It's over. We're finally, truly free." She said millions of people around the world had worked for the moment when the activists would be released.The first...

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