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Reuters: Finland plans to set up center to counter ‘hybrid’ threats

Published Nov. 21, 2016 at 8:22 pm

(FILES) A handout photo released by VG-Shipping company shows a Russian warship pictured from the deck of Finland state owned marine research vessel Aranda on its way to international waters, east of the Swedish island of Gotland on Sept. 2, 2014.

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Several NATO and EU countries are planning to establish a center in Helsinki to research how to counter “hybrid” warfare, a senior Finnish government official said on Nov. 21.

Finland has a 1,300-km (800-mile) border with Russia, which has been accused of mounting “hybrid” campaigns in the Ukraine conflict – combining conventional and unofficial military means with cyberwarfare, propaganda and other indirect tactics.