In this case, the said professor, however, is pushing disinformation, not in Finland but Russia. There has been some animosity about "the treatment of Russian-born children in Finland" as the Russian Child Rights official is claiming, with the said professor's support, the Finnish Social Services have taken kids from their parents simply because they were ethnic Russians. And yes, there are the fifth columnists, not to mention the troll factories in Russia that create fake Facebook profiles and feed BS on the public discussion in the Finnish newspapers' comment sections.
In the past two years, we've seen Russian military planes violating the Finnish territorial waters and (probably Russian) sub/subs violating Swedish archipelago. We've got military build-up along the Finnish border with the reopening of Alakurtti base and the placement of an Arctic Brigade there. They are not very far from the Finnish border and, being regular troops, are well equiped and can be put to readiness with little warning. And well, you've probably read about the military exercise the Russians held up north - up to 80000 troops. Kind of hard not to be concerned...
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