Final Greenpeace activist freed after Kremlin amnesty

The last of the 26 foreign Greenpeace activists who were detained after an Arctic protest left Russia yesterday, the group announced, finally ending a saga that had caused global concern.

Polish national Tomasz Dziemianczuk, 37, flew out from Saint Petersburg to Warsaw, Greenpeace said in a statement, following 25 other foreign activists who had all left by Saturday following a Kremlin amnesty.

Thirty activists, including four Russians, were detained in September over the protest against oil drilling by Russian energy giant Gazprom, where two campaigners had attempted to scale an oil rig in Arctic waters.