Russia has started issuing visas to foreign crew members of a Greenpeace protest ship and dropped the criminal case against the last member of the team of 30.
Italy's Christian d'Alessandro was notified by investigators that the case against him had been dropped, Greenpeace said on Thursday.
Earlier, Russia closed the cases of the other 29 crew members of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship under a Kremlin-backed amnesty.
The 30 were accused of hooliganism following a protest at a Russian oil rig in the Arctic.
Anthony Perrett of Britain was the first crew member to be given an exit visa, and happily showed off the document to journalists outside the offices of the Russian Federal Migration Service.
"He will be able to go home before the New Year!" Greenpeace tweeted.
But Russian officials could not guarantee all the activists would get home before 2014.
"We're not sure how it will turn out," a spokesman told AFP.
"But we are hoping that things will be in favour of the Greenpeace activists."
