Paul McCartney Urges Putin to Free Jailed Greenpeace Activists
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Paul McCartney wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging him to free Greenpeace activists arrested for protesting against Arctic oil drilling.
“Vladimir, millions of people in dozens of countries would be hugely grateful if you were to intervene to bring about an end to this affair,” McCartney, who was taken on a tour of the Kremlin by the Russian leader and played before him in a 2003 concert on Red Square, said in a letter to Putin dated Oct. 14 and posted on his website today.