Dmitri Litvinov

Five British Greenpeace activists and one Canadian flew out of Russia on Friday following an amnesty which halted their prosecution for a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental group said.

A first Greenpeace activist was on a train out of Russia on Thursday, more than three months after he was arrested along with 29 fellow crew members of a ship protesting against Arctic oil drilling.

Five British Greenpeace activists and one Canadian flew out of Russia on Friday following an amnesty which halted their prosecution for a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental group said.

A first Greenpeace activist was on a train out of Russia on Thursday, more than three months after he was arrested along with 29 fellow crew members of a ship protesting against Arctic oil drilling.