And refused to dine with the king of Sweden
How informs British daily tabloid Daily Mail, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at a meeting with young entrepreneurs, in which he drew a parallel between current events and the era of Peter the Great, had unexpected consequences outside the Russian Federation.
And the consequences are as follows: Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and his wife Jenny Haukio, who were on a visit to the Aland Islands (the Swedish-speaking part of Finland, located at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia) on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of autonomy, flew home by helicopter.
It was planned that the presidential couple would have dinner with King Carl Gustaf XVI of Sweden and Queen Silvia, but the feast was urgently canceled.
The words of his Russian colleague that Peter I “did not take anything away from Sweden” caused such a strong indignation of the Finnish leader, but only returned his own territories.
“It fell to our lot to return and strengthen,” Putin said, adding that these “basic values form the basis of Russia’s existence.”
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