Finland og Russland er fortsatt på talefot, på en måte.

Slik beskriver The Arctic Journal etter et møte denne uken. Det handler om Finlands planer om medlemskap i NATO. Mye forble også usagt, men den russiske utenriksministeren var klar:

There was no shortage of hyperbole spread across the Finnish media during the visit by Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, on Monday and Tuesday.

“Third World War”, “Russophobic”, “dishonest” a “counterproductive” warming towards Nato were just some of the soundbites that made their way to readers.