Russian and Finnish Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Sauli Niinistö pictured during a meeting at the Kremlin in 2017. (Photo: Kremlin.ru)
Washington Post: As tensions rise between Russia and the West, Finland’s president keeps a quiet back channel
As the crisis over Ukraine has brewed, there are few European Union leaders on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official call list.
There was President Emmanuel Macron of France last week. Before that, there was German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in December.
And then there was Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, who after 10 years in his role has one of the most-established connections with Putin among E.U. leaders and is a quiet back channel to inform Western moves in the showdown with Putin.
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WNU Editor: Finland is not a member of NATO, and it has deep economic ties with Russia along their long shared border. It is only natural that with tensions rising between Russia and the West that the Finnish government will act as a back channel for both sides.
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