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 Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. "Parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership." Read more...