Russia’s Prosecutor General said Greenpeace had tried to “interfere in the internal affairs of the state” and was “engaged in anti-Russian propaganda” by calling for sanctions against Moscow.
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“This decision makes it illegal for any Greenpeace activity to continue in Russia. Therefore, the Russian branch of Greenpeace is forced to close,” Greenpeace Russia said in a statement posted on Telegram. “I am not aware of any successful appeals against such a decision,” he told Reuters in an interview. “We understood this could happen. But to say we were fully prepared for this would not be entirely honest.”.Russia previously launched criminal proceedings against Greenpeace activists in 2013 when they attempted to scale an offshore oil rig in the Arctic Ocean belonging to state energy giant Gazprom, to protest against Arctic oil production.
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