Russia orders firms to release captive 'whales prisoners' after outcry
MOSCOW - Russian authorities have ordered the release of nearly 100 whales held captive in cages in Russia’s Far East in a case that has drawn the ire of President Vladimir Putin, the public and international film stars, TASS news agency said on Thursday.Images of the whales, kept in cramped enclosures in a bay near the Sea of Japan port town of Nakhodka, first appeared last year, triggering a wave of criticism.
Russia’s federal security service, the FSB, brought charges against four companies on Monday for breaking fishing laws, TASS reported. “We are doing everything we can,” Ecology Minister Dmitry Kobylkin was cited by TASS news agency as saying on Thursday.
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