On July 26, 2016, RIAC Program Manager for the Arctic and Asia-Pacific Lyudmila Filippova met with Executive Chairman of
East Office of Finnish Industries
Esko Aho to discuss future cooperation between the Russian International Affairs Council and the Finnish business association.
The participants announced the Arctic events to be held by the two organizations during this year and elaborated on the opportunities for the Russian and Finnish representatives to be invited.
On July 1, 2016, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin met with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö. Despite the Ukrainian crisis, the events in Syria and attempts by Western countries to isolate Russia, the Russia–Finland partner dialogue, as well as political contacts and trading and economic cooperation between the two countries never ceased. Vladimir Putin and Sauli Niinistö exchanged opinions on key issues of the international agenda, including the prospects ...
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 ...
