About 20 Greenpeace activists were detained in Moscow at the entrance to the conference "Oil and Gas of the Russian Arctic"
Two dozen environmentalists were detained on Tuesday morning, April 17, in Moscow for picketing against oil and gas production in the Arctic. “About 20 people were detained. Almost all participants in the action,” Oksana Karavaiko, press secretary of the Russian branch of Greenpeace, told Interfax . According to her, Greenpeace activists decided to stage a peaceful rally on Tuesday near the Renaissance-Monarch hotel, where the conference “Oil and Gas of the Russian Arctic” opened.