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Arbitration panel tells Russia to pay Dutch $6 million over #Greenpeace boat seizure
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-russia-arbitration-idUSKBN1A31J0

Russia must pay the Netherlands more than 5 million euros ($5.79 million)in damages for seizing a Dutch-flagged Greenpeace vessel in 2013 and arresting 30 people aboard, an international arbitration panel ruled on Tuesday.

Russian Federal Security Service agents captured the #Arctic_Sunrise in international waters after a protest against an oil platform. Those on board were detained in Russian prisons for months and released shortly before the Sochi Olympics.

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#Greenpeace ship #Arctic_Sunrise released by Russia - Yahoo News
▻http://news.yahoo.com/greenpeace-ship-arctic-sunrise-released-russia-102535370.html

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The Amsterdam-based environmental group said Friday the Arctic Sunrise departed the northern Russian port city of Murmansk and was headed to Amsterdam.

The ship had been held since September 2013 after Russian authorities seized it during a protest against an offshore oil platform and arrested the 30 people on board. Greenpeace opposes the location of the platform, within the Arctic Circle.

The crew and journalists were initially charged with piracy and were held in Russian prisons for months after their arrest near the #Prirazlomnaya platform. The charges were later downgraded to hooliganism and they were eventually released shortly before the Sochi Olympics.