Finland’s accession to NATO is not in the interests of the Finnish people and does not contribute to pan-European security.
This was stated by the Chairman of the Russian Historical Society (RHS), Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin at a round table dedicated to the history of Soviet and Russian-Finnish relations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His words are quoted by TASS.
Naryshkin emphasised that Finnish elites had once again ‘chosen a course to break with Russia’.
According to him, this led to the country’s entry ‘into the aggressive NATO bloc.’
‘History teaches that co-operation with Russia brought much more benefit to Finland than its previous attempts to follow in the fairway of aggressive Russophobic and even neo-Nazi policies,’ he added.
Earlier, Naryshkin expressed bewilderment at Finland’s decision to close the Lenin Museum.
In early November, Finnish President Alexander Stubb doubted that the country would have gained NATO membership at the current moment if it had applied only now.