Russia to file piracy charges against Greenpeace

Is that what it said or is that what one person said? I didn't read what you read into it. As for the Russians, Putin is trying to create an image. We'll see if that works in his favor or against it. So far I'd say the Pussy Riot incident just left him looking like a bully to the international community. Now he's taking on gays, going in the opposite direction of most of the western world. We'll have to wait and see how he decides to handle Greenpeace. They have a little more infulence than a few little girls in a punk rock band. If he's pushing for a totalitarian regime in might work out for him, but those regimes haven't been fairing too well in recent years.

Anyway, this won't get resolved here. This was an interesting news article. The place for political debate is elsewhere.