Russia 'seizes' Greenpeace ship

[Misfit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24170129

Greenpeace says 30 activists, including six Britons, are being held at gunpoint by Russian security officers who stormed the group's ship in the Arctic.

One of the activists told the BBC that about 15 men in balaclavas seized the Arctic Sunrise ship in the Barents Sea.

This comes a day after four Greenpeace members tried to board a Russian oil platform to prevent it from drilling.

The group says this threatens a unique and fragile environment - a claim denied by Moscow.

 

[Second Summer]

They don't take kindly to environmentalists over there. Or unique and fragile environments. Or punk rock bands. Or "gay propaganda".

Actually, the full list of all the things they don't take kindly to is rather long.

 

[ledboots]

Oh no I hope they are released unharmed.

 

[Clueless Git]

They don't take kindly to environmentalists over there. Or unique and fragile environments. Or punk rock bands. Or "gay propaganda".

Actually, the full list of all the things they don't take kindly to is rather long.

My Russian contacts inform me that #3 on the list of things the Russians don't take kindly to is people who makes lists of the things they don't kindly to.

#4 being people who claim to have contacts in Russia when they haven't.

In other news ...

Greenpeace sent an email out to all their members last night with a link to an email they need people to sign.

https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/pa...eful-protesters?source=em&subsource=sunrise01

 

[Snowcone]

They don't take kindly to environmentalists over there. Or unique and fragile environments. Or punk rock bands. Or "gay propaganda".

Actually, the full list of all the things they don't take kindly to is rather long.

The only thing I can think of Russia taking kindly to in recent memory is Edward Snowden, and I think the reasons for that were obvious.