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Russia on Thursday released 10 Greenpeace activists on bail, bringing to 11 the number freed from jail as President Vladimir Putin said the group had noble motives for their Arctic protest. The activists who walked free from prison included Russian freelance photographer Denis Sinyakov, Greenpeace press secretary Andrei Allakhverdov and Finnish activist Sini Saarela, who was one of those to scale a state-owned oil platform. Their release came after Greenpeace paid bail of two million rubles ($60,750) each. The first activist to be freed was Brazil's Ana Paul Maciel on Wednesday.
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