Donetsk People's Republic Representative Center opened in Helsinki - Finland supports non-recognized states

Right after Finland celebrated her centenary on December 6th 2017, Donetsk People's Republic opened her official representative center in the Finnish capital on December 9th, 2017. The event was very widely reported in Donetsk, Russian and Ukrainian media. The DPR representative center has official status in Finland since autumn 2016, when it was registered by the Finnish Patent and Registrations administration. Before that, since Summer 2014, Finnish representative was based on power of attorney from Donetsk authorities. Finnish authorities have nothing against the DPR representative, since Finland has a good tradition in supporting representatives of non-recognized states. Earlier for example East Germany (GDR) and Palestine had functioning representatives in Helsinki despite non-recognition. Finland had good tradition in supporting especially non-regocnized GDR. Not surprisingly many of those Finns who once supported GDR, now support DPR. This in fact means majority of Finnish intellectuals, most of whom are at least positively interested. For Finnish authorities DPR representative is very comfortable for enstreghtening Finland's international position and supporting the Minsk peace process. Unfortunately, Finnish foreign ministry is temporary paralyzed, because after the split of the "True Finns" party, the new party of foreign minister Timo Soini ("The Blues") has only 1 % support, thus Finnish foreign ministry does not have real mandate to represent Finns' opinion. 

The DPR representative already has organised tourist trips for Finns to Donbass and will continue in 2018. Also, several books have been published in Finnish and seminars and conferences organised, also with Nordic experts. The main achievement of the center this far is the fact that most Finns know about Donetsk People's Republic and accept her existence. Also, journalists write more respectively. 

DPR representative opened in good atmosphere with Finns from various fields of life and profession and various ages. An address by DPR foreign minister Natalia Nikonorova was read to the audience at the opening. Nikonorova wrote, that "opening of the DPR representative center in Finland became and important step towards strenghtening information, cultural and economic ties between DPR and Your State." In answer, over 30 Finnish activists from various spheres undersigned a letter of gratitude for the DPR foreign minister Nikonorova and promised to develop Finnish-DPR relations in the fields of culture, education, information, trade, tourism and others. 

Employee of the DPR representative office and president of the Finland-Novorossia Friendship Society Ms Jaana-Marika Kurtti raised a toast for all friends of Russia, Novorossia and Donetsk People's Republic. 

The Finnish friends of Donbass were really happy to sing Russian songs together in both Finnish and Russian languages. 

During the opening, a video link with Donbass was established with the Finnish director of the information agency "DONi" Janus Putkonen.  

At the evening, free debate continued in good spirits.

NATO got license to kill in Finland

The newly established "hybrid know-how center" in Finland, titled "European Center of Excellence for Counteracting Hybrid Threats" (hybridcoe.fi) has turned out to be a NATO espionage and military operations center, employees of which have immunity of prosecution in Finland and thus can commit any crimes without consequence.  The Finnish media has reported about the "hybrid know-how center" very vaguely. However, the Finnish law on this center, passed in July 2017 by Finnish parliament, gives very clear picture of the NATO espionage center. The law stipulates that the NATO espionage center can operate fully outside Finnish jurisdiction, employees have immunity of prosecution, they do not have to pay taxes, they can commit any crimes without consequence and Finnish authorities have no right of supervision of employees, premises, communications or "archives" of NATO espionage center. The center can collect any intelligence information for their "archives" and transfer that data to foreign countries. Recently, a NATO intelligence director and a U.S. general visited the NATO espionage center in Helsinki. In a country where 70-80 percent of the population does not support membership in NATO, solely the establishment of such a NATO espionage center is a provocation and a military threat. The "hybrid know-how center" can thus do anything, they have even license to kill, without any consequences. It is rather clear, that the most severe hybrid threat against Finland is the NATO espionage center itself. It is an aggressive NATO military intelligence center on Finnish soil and it threatens concretely security and rights of every Finn. The NATO intelligence center can be used, for example, to forger Finnish elections, to support a coup, or NATO occupation. All this can be read from the law about the center.