'Not Welcome': Finnish Protesters Criticise Trump-Putin Summit [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Helsinki 'not neutral ground' despite its history of hosting key cold war meetings The Finns are proud of hosting some of the cold war's most historic summits. But many in the country will tell you: don't call Helsinki "neutral ground".
Protesters came out on Sunday to attack both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin before the controversial summit between the two leaders in the Finnish capital.
"Not welcome," read one sign, held by Hemmo Siponen, showing a cartoon of Trump and Putin embracing. "Fuck you both," read another carried by two young women.
"It doesn't feel good to have them here," said Anna Bruun, a civil servant who said she was opposed to "great power politics" playing out in her home city. The country's largest newspaper has put up English- and Russian-language street adverts saying: "Mr President, welcome to the land of free press."...More..
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Finland has established its western credentials in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union, with EU membership and an enhanced partnership with Nato. "Since the end of the cold war, the policy has been that Finland is part of the west. We have built a society that is very solid and unified, world class in terms of many rankings, as a way of getting out of the geographical bind we found ourselves in."
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