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Russian cops put this furry protester on ice.

A Greenpeace activist dressed as a polar bear was cuffed and thrown in a squad car yesterday during a protest outside an oil-drilling firm’s offices in Moscow.

The environmental group has been railing against Russia’s Rosneft company and Norway’s state-run oil giant Statoil, and members costumed as polar bears have been helping get the message out.

This month, a Greenpeace “bear” paddled down Moscow’s Moskva River, past the Kremlin, on a white raft designed to look like an iceberg and adorned with signs that read, “Help!” and “Arctic not for sale.”

The protester was stopped by a patrol boat and briefly detained.

More than a week later, three other “bears” climbed aboard a Statoil-chartered rig in the Norwegian fjords before it headed for drilling in the Barents Sea. They were escorted off.

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