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Article: Finland's reaction to the Georgia crisis.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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THE world has been shocked as the spectre of a 'New Cold War' has been raised by Russia's August invasion of Georgia's break-away regions. Former Soviet states are feeling particularly alarmed at this renewed Russian aggression but Finland, often lumped together with Scandinavia, also has good reason to be profoundly concerned.
In the last issue of Contemporary Review, my article examined the history of Finland's relations with its powerful neighbour, Russia. Finland was part of the Russian Empire until 1917, Russia took a twelfth of its territory in 1944 (which has never been returned) and, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Finland infamously followed the ...