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Huffington Post: Finnish newspaper targets Trump and Putin with giant free-press billboards

By Huffington Post.

Published July 16, 2018 at 12:49 pm

A picture taken on July 14, 2018 shows a board reading "Mr. President, welcome to the land of free press" and displayed by Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat on the facade of the Music Centre in Helsinki on July 14, 2018. Finland may have largely shut down for the summer holidays but officials and police have been drafted back into work ahead of a historic summit in Helsinki between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Photo by AFP

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were welcomed to Helsinki, Finland, with a potent message about the importance of press freedom ahead of their bilateral summit.

Helsingin Sanomat, one of the country’s top news outlets, unveiled nearly 300 billboards calling out the leaders’ respective records of rocky relations with the media. The billboards were placed along the leaders’ route to the summit.