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20May

By Paulo Roberto da Silva Gomes FilhoNo Comments

Europe, Finland, International Organizations, OTAN, Sweden

Finland and Sweden in NATO

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration the president of russia, Putin stated that, always made it quite clear that the main reason for the invasion of Ukraine was the threat that the country's possible NATO membership posed to Russia's security. The strong objection must not be, only, the fact that Ukraine is a country closely linked to Russia, with common historical roots, that would be moving away from the orbit of Russian influence towards the Western Alliance and the European Union. But, mainly, always according to President Putin's line of reasoning, it would be another step in NATO's continued expansion towards Russian borders.. After all, former former soviet republics, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, in addition to former Warsaw Pact allies, Poland, Bulgaria, Ro...

Finland prepares for the threat of a possible Russian invasion

Article written by Karen Andersson and Laura Rossi The advances of the Russian nation since the day 24 of February this year against the Ukrainian territory and people shook the planet and especially the countries close to the conflict. Since the beginning of the invasion, neighboring countries to Ukraine like Poland, Slovakia and Romania have received a very strong influx of refugees and provided humanitarian aid. However, it is further north among the Scandinavian countries where even more intense concerns about Vladimir Putin's future intentions have been consolidating after he made numerous threats to Sweden and Finland and proved intransigent in the face of the demands of the great powers and international organizations. The Nordic countries fear that the same thing as you could happen to them..

Left back to power in the Nordic countries

Jonas Gahr Støre, leader of the Norwegian Labor Party - left assumes power By Karen Andersson & Laura Rossi In a new political tune, the 5 Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark) are aligned with the left turn to power after almost 60 years. At the beginning of last September, to Norway, until then being the only Scandinavian country led by a conservative government, elegeu Jonas Gahr Støre, labor party leader, for the post of prime minister. Støre directed his campaign and his speech to the “ordinary people”, what enchanted the population. This charm can be seen in the numbers., that showed a record of more than 1,6 million Norwegians registering their vote (not mandatory in the country), representing like this 42,3% of the electorate....