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On March 17, 2016 Esko Tapani Aho, Executive Chairman of the Board of East Office of Finnish Industries and former Prime Minister of Finland, and Jari Jumpponen, Head of Moscow Representative Office of East Office of Finnish Industries, visited the Russian International Affairs Council and discussed issues of Russian-Finnish bilateral cooperation and prospects for multilateral cooperation ...
... combination of “bricks” for dealing with specific issues can be quickly put together. Are there any examples of alternative methods being used successfully to solve problems of national security? Of course there are. Just look at the experience of Finland and Sweden after World War II. These two northern European countries decided upon a policy of neutrality – both will follow their own paths depending on geopolitical circumstances and taking their own complex, and at times dramatic, history ...
... and dropping energy prices. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov presented RIAC’s current and future Arctic projects and plans and discussed bilateral cooperation of Russian and Finnish think tanks in drawing up the agenda for the approaching Finland’s presidency in the Arctic Council.
... was being treated for nervous and physical exhaustion because he feared that “little Red men” from Russia were about to invade America. A belief in his own delusions brought him to a tragic end. It is unlikely that Minister of Defence of Finland Jussi Niinistö, who recently declared that the Åland Islands might be occupied by “little green men” – that is, Russian soldiers in military uniforms without insignia – really believes that events could take ...
Finland’s political landscape has not yet produced a dominant party able to form a government of its own with solid parliamentary support. Consequently, the coming arrangement will again be a coalition, although its composition may change. Question ...
... signatures of four states, the contemporaries very well understood that the Russian and German empires, the two great powers, were the handlers of the fate of Northern Europe. Between the two world wars, new independent states emerged in the Baltic, i.e. Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which gave rise to diverse defense blocs. Estonia proposed an alliance to Finland, and Finland – to Sweden, while later more sophisticated schemes popped up and were partially materialized, for example ...
... fundamental interests of the countries and peoples of Northern Europe to maintain and consolidate the zone of peace and stability in the region. This is not to say that those countries do not include political forces that are ready to support the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO and to help these states become deeply integrated into the military and political structures of the North Atlantic treaty, or, on the other hand, very influential political and social circles that are firmly against such a ...
On December 1-4, 2014 RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Fililppova went to Finland as a member of press tour "Arctic Issues and Arctic Policy" sponsored by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Finnfacts Agency. Among participants were media people and representatives of Karelia Republic, Murmansk Region, Pskov ...
Finland has become quite an active player in the current Ukrainian situation. The government has not only maintained an outspoken view against the violation of Ukraine’s territory, but also recently President Sauli Niinistö met with the presidents ...
Speaking before the Committee for the Future of the Finnish Parliament and its Chairman Päivi Lipponen, who is heading it since 2011, RIAC Program Director covered certain trends of Russia’s development, their influence on the country’s future and relations with key international partners. Most of all, the deputies were interested in the status of the Russian research base in the humanities, and its potential for forecasting and scenario-making. Dr. Timofeev’s presentation...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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