MOSCOW: Greenpeace said a Russian ship fired flares at one of its scout vessels October 11 as it sailed without permission toward a former Soviet nuclear-test site above the Arctic circle.
No flares hit the Greenpeace ship Solo, which sped back into international waters from the Russian-controlled Kara Straits after the encounter, the environmental group said.
A Greenpeace spokeswoman said the ship would try another run into Russian waters around the island of Novaya Zemlya to study effects of nuclear tests.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 23, 1992
