Camila Speziale from Argentina was among those bailed
A court in the Russian city of St Petersburg has granted bail to five foreign nationals who were among 30 people arrested during an Arctic protest by Greenpeace.
The condition for release is a bail sum of 2m roubles (£38,000; $61,000) each, to be paid within the next four days.
The ruling concerns five Greenpeace activists: two Argentines, a Brazilian, a New Zealander and a Pole.
On Monday, the court granted bail to three Russians from the group of 30.
The five bailed on Tuesday were named as: Miguel Orsi (Argentina), Camila Speziale (Argentina), Ana Paula Maciel (Brazil), David Haussman (New Zealand) and Tomasz Dziemianczuk (Poland).
The 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists were arrested after a protest at a Russian offshore oil rig in the Arctic two months ago.
Their ship, the Arctic Sunrise, was seized by armed security men.
The rest of the group are due to face similar hearings this week. Six Britons are among the 30.
A separate court has extended the pre-trial detention of an Australian activist, Colin Russell, for a further three months.
The 30 were originally charged with piracy, but Russian authorities dropped those charges and replaced them with hooliganism, which carries a lesser prison sentence.
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