Russia - Greenpeace Members Held at Arctic Oil Rig - NYTimes.com Russian border guards detained two activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace early Wednesday morning after they boarded an oil rig to protest drilling in the Arctic by a state gas company. Border guards fired a warning shot from an automatic rifle by the ship that ferried the protesters to the oil rig in the Pechora Sea in Russia's Arctic waters, the Federal Security Service said in a statement. The statement said that the warning shot was fired for the protesters" failure to "cease illegal activity" and "the real danger to the gas and oil complex." Maria Favorskaya, a Greenpeace Russia representative, said the organization was in contact with Russian law enforcement but had not spoken with the activists, Sini Saarela of Finland and Marco Polo of Switzerland, since they were detained Wednesday morning.