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2013-09-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian courts order Greenpeace activists held over Arctic oil protest

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Anybody on that ship was aiding and abetting piracy. Give them 15 years and they can work off their sentences in a logging camp in Siberia, next to the North Korean workers.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-09-27 01:35|| 2013-09-27 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Take these Greenpeace activists. Please . . . .

Posted by gorb 2013-09-27 03:10|| 2013-09-27 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 "The Russian authorities are trying to scare people who stand up to the oil industry in the Arctic, but this blatant intimidation will not succeed,"

Sounds like they DID succeed.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-09-27 06:37|| 2013-09-27 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess confronting American or Japanese interests has lost its fund drive appeal.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-27 08:40|| 2013-09-27 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Idiots should have known better than to take on mother Russia. They are used to intimidating pussies in the West. Putin will teach them some lessons about real life.

Posted by Jaising Creque9323 2013-09-27 10:00|| 2013-09-27 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Try them as pirates and hang 'em.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-09-27 11:10|| 2013-09-27 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7 I like the idea of the logging camp; it gets the Greenpeacers back in touch with nature!

Posted by Raj 2013-09-27 13:16|| 2013-09-27 13:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Salt mining is another worthy venue.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-27 15:36|| 2013-09-27 15:36|| Front Page Top

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