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posted by janrinok on Thursday March 31 2022, @12:32PM   Printer-friendly

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 01 2022, @04:29AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 01 2022, @04:29AM (#1233948) Journal

    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.

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