Paul McCartney wrote a letter to Putin asking for help to free the Arctic Sunrise crew
“I wonder if you could use your influence, whatever it is, to get the detainees back to their families?” writes Paul McCartney, recalling when he and Vladimir Putin drank tea in the Kremlin 10 years ago. That year, Sir Paul's only concert in Moscow brought together more than 100,000 people on Red Square, who, among others, greeted the world-famous song "Back to the USSR" with a standing ovation. Paul McCartney quotes lines from it in a letter to the President of Russia.