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First Greenpeace activists get visas to leave Russia

Russia on Thursday started issuing visas to the foreign crew of a Greenpeace protest ship and dropped the criminal case against the last member of the 30-strong team.

26.12.2013

(AFP) Russia on Thursday started issuing visas to the foreign crew of a Greenpeace protest ship and dropped the criminal case against the last member of the 30-strong team.

Thirteen Greenpeace activists and a British video journalist were issued transit visas allowing them to leave Russia and go home after a three-month ordeal sparked by a protest against Arctic oil drilling in September.