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04-01-2014, 07:11 AM
Finland Unhappy About Russia Conducting Military Drills on Its Border
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The Finnish army has started a "24-7 live-monitoring (http://www.finnbay.com/russian-defence-forces-we-fire-on-unfamiliar-sites-near-finland/)" operation following a Russian military air-force drill that is occurring (http://www.finnbay.com/finnish-military-alarmed-over-air-force-drills-at-russian-border/) just 150 miles from the border between the two countries.
It has people asking: Is Finland the next Crimea?
After #Crimea (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Crimea&src=hash), do we need to talk about #Finland (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Finland&src=hash) and #Belarus (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Belarus&src=hash)? #Putin (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Putin&src=hash)'s former advisor Andrei Illario**v thinks so: http://t.co/hPnAJRBIKy
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) March 31, 2014 (https://twitter.com/MoscowTimes/statuses/450762292033228800)
The Finnish army's alertness comes after a former advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin said the ex-KGB agent might also want Finland.
“Putin’s view is that he protects what belongs to him and his predecessors,” Putin’s former chief eco**mic adviser Andrei Illario**v told (http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/497112.html) Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. "Parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/finland-russia-military-drills/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The Finnish army has started a "24-7 live-monitoring (http://www.finnbay.com/russian-defence-forces-we-fire-on-unfamiliar-sites-near-finland/)" operation following a Russian military air-force drill that is occurring (http://www.finnbay.com/finnish-military-alarmed-over-air-force-drills-at-russian-border/) just 150 miles from the border between the two countries.
It has people asking: Is Finland the next Crimea?
After #Crimea (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Crimea&src=hash), do we need to talk about #Finland (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Finland&src=hash) and #Belarus (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Belarus&src=hash)? #Putin (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Putin&src=hash)'s former advisor Andrei Illario**v thinks so: http://t.co/hPnAJRBIKy
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) March 31, 2014 (https://twitter.com/MoscowTimes/statuses/450762292033228800)
The Finnish army's alertness comes after a former advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin said the ex-KGB agent might also want Finland.
“Putin’s view is that he protects what belongs to him and his predecessors,” Putin’s former chief eco**mic adviser Andrei Illario**v told (http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/497112.html) Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. "Parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/finland-russia-military-drills/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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