Russia Will Free Arctic 30 And Pussy Riot
An amnesty bill could come into effect later and should also see several anti-Vladimir Putin protesters released.
新聞背景：
近年來，北約東擴、東歐反導系統的強化，使俄戰略空間不斷被壓縮，戰略平衡逐步被打破。為此，俄羅斯在楔入歐盟的“飛地”部署戰力強大的導彈系統以此制約美國和北約實施的歐洲導彈防御計劃。
德國爆料，俄羅斯在加里寧格勒部署大約10套“伊斯坎德爾”導彈系統。加里寧格勒不與俄羅斯本土接壤，位于波蘭和立陶宛之間，屬俄羅斯飛地。
消息得到俄羅斯國防部發言人伊戈爾·科納申科夫確認。俄羅斯媒體援引科納申科夫的話報道：“西部軍區導彈和炮兵部隊的確已經部署幾套‘伊斯坎德爾’作戰—戰術導彈系統。”西部軍區包括俄羅斯西部和西北大部分省份，以及加里寧格勒地區。
美國國務院副發言人瑪麗·哈夫說，已經敦促俄羅斯避免采取可能的措施，破壞地區穩定。
美國國防部長查克·哈格爾在電視會議上告訴俄羅斯國防部長謝爾蓋·紹伊古，與伊朗達成的初步核協議還不能令北約撤除反導系統。美國國防部在聲明中說，哈格爾重申，美國和北約的反導系統不會威脅俄羅斯，敦促雙方繼續就下一步在歐洲的部署計劃進行磋商。
俄羅斯國防部發言人科納申科夫說，俄羅斯部署導彈沒有違反任何國際條約或協定，因此不應受到西方國家聲討。

This was the moment when an environmental protest turned into an international incident, greenpeace activists and two journalists being arrested by Russian security forces in the Arctic sea, three months on they have been pardoned as a part of Russian amnesty political prisoners, free to return home to their families, probably in time for Christmas.
If myself you know mom and dad we have all been trying to play it down, not to get hopes up, it was great when it finally come through, and we are so happy.
Six Britons were amongst the group who became known as the Arctic 30, charged with hooliganism after attempting to scale an oil platform in the Arctic sea. Behind bars then billed they had faced the prospect of years in jail until president Putin intervened.

Synics may say it is not an entirely hoolistic act, coming as it does ahead of next year's winter Olympics to be held in the Russian city of Sochi, an event President Putin will not want to overshadow with the airing of Russia's dirty washing over its human rights record.
They were speculating on quite wide this has happened, don't forget we were doing the same act two and half year ago on the very same oil platform, we a coastguard vessel of the FFE stand by watching us, no action was taken then what so ever.
For two Russian stars of the femnist rock band Pussy Riot they has also been pardoned, but not before nearly two years of grim punishment.
For this anti Putin video, Nadeshta and Marry were sent to remote prison camps, of her experience, N wrote"eternally sleep deprived, overwhelmed by the endless race to fulfill inhumanly large quotas, prisoners are always on the verge of breaking down, screaming at each other over the smallest things."
The girls basically have two months left in jail after two years, so getting this sort of little discount at the end of your term doesn't make much difference, so this amnesty didn't really help them, and besides they are also not very happy about the fact that the final version of the bill is not as wide as it was proposed by human rights activists, it has been cut.
This is one family soon to be reunited, but hundreds of thousands more political prisoners who are far less profile will remain in Russian jails.
Isa Holland, Sky News.