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Finland's Spy Service Warns of Russian Interference, Attacks:
Finland must brace for Russian interference and hybrid attacks as it weighs whether to join the NATO military alliance, the security services warned on Tuesday.
The Nordic nation shares a 1,340-kilometre (830-mile) border with Russia and has remained militarily non-aligned since the end of World War II to avoid provoking its eastern neighbour.
[...] "The whole of Finnish society must be vigilant towards Russian attempts to influence Finnish decision-making regarding the NATO question," Antti Pelttari, head of the Finnish security services Supo, said.
Releasing its updated terrorism threat report, Supo on Tuesday highlighted the danger of "widespread Russian interference and illegal surveillance," but kept the national terror threat at level two, or "elevated", on a scale of four.
[...] Finland has previously been subject to so-called hybrid tactics from Moscow, such as repeated airspace incursions, or the release in 2016 of 1,700 migrants across the Finnish border.
Earlier this month the transport authority Traficom said it had received "numerous" reports from aircraft of GPS interference in eastern Finland, but was unable to identify the source of the interference.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday April 01 2022, @02:44AM (9 children)
Let's not forget that during referendum about being in the USSR Ukrainians rejected separation by 70-80% margin. The whole Ukraine is a separate country thing is illegal.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday April 01 2022, @03:29AM (6 children)
So this was a referendum during the days of the USSR? Sounds like a waste of time to consider.
Also consider how much fight is in the Ukraine today, sounds like it's not a 70-80% margin any more, even if we were to optimistically assume that this alleged referendum reflected actual voter will.
Russia signed a treaty acknowledging the sovereignty of Ukraine. So we're out of laws that would be relevant to your claim.
(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday April 02 2022, @02:58AM (1 child)
This referendum was run by Yeltsin. He "considered" it and dissolved the USSR anyway against the will of the People.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Saturday April 02 2022, @03:22PM
The question might be missing something in translation, but the USSR never was this. Voters would have been voting on continuing/renewing a USSR that never existed in the first place! And given how much trouble Russia has had since with those rights and freedom of individuals, I think continuing the USSR would have been a dire mistake and contrary to the wish displayed in that referendum. Yeltsin made the right call.
After all, this displays a big problem of the USSR, the political dominance of Russia which had a firm majority of the population of the USSR (my bet is that this was by design back in the day to insure that the USSR couldn't be swayed by a non-Russian faction). It reminds me of the Wiemar Republic which had a similar instability in the Free State of Prussia (which IIRC had two thirds of the population of the Wiemar Republic). Failings of the single large state become failings of the entire country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 03 2022, @02:38AM (3 children)
I hate to say it, but you are falling for a standard troll tactic. They provide a kernel of truth to obfuscate the lie. If you want to know what Ukraine thought about being part of the USSR, then you should really look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum [wikipedia.org] But that obviously paints a completely different picture of what the Ukrainian people wanted.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday April 03 2022, @07:18PM (2 children)
This article is 100% fake. You can easily see it as there are no links to the official results of the vote.
This one does have such a link. Feel free to research it yourself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum [wikipedia.org]
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 04 2022, @02:58AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 04 2022, @05:23AM
100% fake. LOL. The citations there are as official as any you'd find in your blessed wikipedia article.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 01 2022, @04:29AM
Times do change. One or more of my great . . . greats would have called it treason to rebel against the English crown. And, one or more of my great . . . greats would have also considered it treason to rebel against the French crown. Ditto the Austro-Hungarian empire. Need I go on? Today's reality can't be expected to conform to any of our forebear's wishes. And, there's no telling what our own descendants are going to do with the world 150 years from now.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 03 2022, @02:45PM
For those counting, it's less than 8% "rejecting" separation. An order of magnitude error is quite significant, wouldn't you say?