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28 Oct 2026
🇫🇮 What is said about Finland
Finland's President Alexander Stubb took part in a 90-minute call on Tuesday with Vladimir Putin and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere. Stoere defended the call as a way to ensure Putin heard European views as well as US views; it broke with Western European leaders' practice of avoiding direct contact with the Kremlin and drew criticism from allies.
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Norway's prime minister defended on Wednesday a three-way call with Vladimir Putin and Finland's president, saying it was intended to ensure the Russian leader heard European as well as US views. Tuesday's call between Russia's Putin, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian premier Jonas Gahr Stoere broke a longstanding practice among Western European leaders of shunning direct contact with the Kremlin, and was criticised by allies including Denmark's Mette Frederiksen.
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