Monday, December 13, 2004

Helsinki and the Russophobes

No, it's not a new Swedish Europop band. It's actually a brewing (albeit minor) scuffle between those hotheaded Finns and their more reserved cousins to the East -- or do I have that backwards?

Finland for Thought and The Periscope have posts detailing this unlikely dustup between Russia and Helsinki. Apparently Mr. Yastrzhembski has turned his sights away from traditional targets (like the Baltics) and toward Finland, accusing it of being a "Russophobic" state in Europe. FfT wonders aloud why it should be that the Finns might have a problem with Mother Russia, while The Periscope points us to an article from Helsingin Sanomat that suggests the Finns might have brought it upon themselves.

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