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Finnish president favors sanctions against Russia, not its isolation

Published Feb. 9, 2015 at 10:38 am

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto (L) meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the presidential summer residence Kultaranta in Naantali, Finland, on June 10, 2014.

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Finland's President Sauli Niinisto thinks that Russia should face consequences for violating international agreements.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference last Feb. 7 he said that he knows how things should not be in order for the West to have a good policy with Russia. Russia should not allowed to flout international agreements without facing any consequences, but nor should it be fully isolated either, the Finnish president said.