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St. Petersburg courts went through all Prirazlomnaya incident cases

29 out of 30 granted bail, one will remain imprisoned

 {history:88:'Related news'}MOSCOW, November 22. /ITAR-TASS/. British national Philip Ball was the last Greenpeace Activist involved in the Prirazlomnaya incident to be granted bail. Currently 23 prisoners were already released, after their bail was posted.  Primorsky district court of St. Petersburg has extended for three months the arrest term to Australian citizen Colin Russell, who was detained during a Greenpeace action seeking to board the Russian offshore oil drilling rig Prirazlomnaya, Itar-Tass reported from the courtroom on Monday. Thus, the term in arrest was extended until February 24.

Head of St. Petersburg branch of Greenpeace, Dmitry Artamonov, said that the organization will take care of the financial aspect of the activists' stay in the city until the trial.