Norway’s Halogaland Court of Appeal concluded a legal saga surrounding British-Russian businessman Andrey Yakunin, the son of Russia’s sanctioned former head of Russian Railways, refusing the prosecution’s appeal and effectively affirming his acquittal on charges related to flying a hobby drone in Svalbard, Norway. This decision comes after a protracted two-year legal battle that saw Yakunin arrested in the autumn of 2022 and detained for 52 days. Yakunin, who was arrested during a sailing expedition in the Arctic archipelago for allegedly violating Norwegian sanctions regulations by flying dr…