Action at Russian Embassy in Finland

Greenpeace activists in black and yellow barrels chained to the gate of the Russian Embassy, on the left a hand with the index reading: 'Oil Hazard' in Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the protest was to criticise Russia's permission for oil tankers without adequate ice classification to enter its ports in Primorsk and St Petersburg. The debate about this topic intensified when Greek oil tankers sailed the Gulf of Finland without adequate ice classification. As a result of Greenpeace's and the Finnish government's protests the Greek shipping agency Minerva decided to withdraw its ships from the Baltic Sea.