Brave Green-peaceniks

Gazprom was certainly better prepared this year to counter the Greenpeace action against the Prirazlomnaya platform in the Pechora sea – but this is the case of better preparedness making things much worse. The border guard ship (in the picture from the Greenpeace website) had to fire on the Arctic Sunrise in order to prevent it from coming close to the platform, and two activists were detained. Great negative publicity, even in the official coverage, and a great many details in the business media. Nothing on the Gazprom website, certainly, but kudos to brave Green-peaceniks.