Russian cops put this furry protester on ice.
A Greenpeace activist dressed as a polar bear was cuffed and thrown in a squad car yesterday during a protest outside an oil-drilling firm’s offices in Moscow.
The environmental group has been railing against Russia’s Rosneft company and Norway’s state-run oil giant Statoil, and members costumed as polar bears have been helping get the message out.
This month, a Greenpeace “bear” paddled down Moscow’s Moskva River, past the Kremlin, on a white raft designed to look like an iceberg and adorned with signs that read, “Help!” and “Arctic not for sale.”
The protester was stopped by a patrol boat and briefly detained.
More than a week later, three other “bears” climbed aboard a Statoil-chartered rig in the Norwegian fjords before it headed for drilling in the Barents Sea. They were escorted off.