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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: 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.