A PROTESTER lobbying against a new oil-drilling joint venture between Russian and Norwegian firms in the Arctic tried to make his point by rowing down a Russian river dressed in a polar bear costume. The Greenpeace activist was spotted paddling down the Moskva River in Moscow aboard a home-made iceberg with two signs that said “Help” and “Arctic not for sale”. Russian authorities promptly arrested the protestor, who was later released without any charges being laid. The two companies are planning to drill for untapped oil reserves in the Barents Sea, north of Russia.
