Today, Finnish and Swedish Russian-speaking public organizations, along with Russian politicians in forced exile, sent letters to the President of the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The letters were also sent to the foreign ministries of EU countries, requesting action to stop the import of Russian nickel ore by the company Norilsk Nickel to Finland and to raise the issue of imposing European Union sanctions against Norilsk Nickel and personally against Vladimir Potanin.
Among those who signed the letter are:
Initiative for Resistance and Dialogues (Initiative FoReDi) RY – Nikita Kirillov, Chairman of Initiative FoReDi, former municipal deputy (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Free Russia Forum, founded by Garry Kasparov, office in Finland – Natalia Alexeeva, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, co-coordinator of the Free Russia Forum in Finland
Democratic Community of Southeastern Finland – Anastasia Khavanskaya, lawyer, political activist, member of the SDP Finland
Anti-War Committee in Sweden "Russians Against War" – Alexey Karikh, Chairman of the Anti-War Committee in Sweden "Russians Against War"
Ivan Zhdanov – lawyer, Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation
Svetlana Utkina – former municipal deputy of Finlandsky District (St. Petersburg, Russia), participant in the "Zemsky Congress"
Eiva Airaksinen – member of the Council of the Free Russia Forum
Olga Galkina – co-chair of the Association of Deputies in Forced Exile "Deputies of Peaceful Russia"
Earlier, a protest was held at the Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta Oy plant in the Finnish town of Harjavalta, involving Finnish citizens, political activists, and refugees. The protesters carried signs with photos of the Russian attack on the Ohmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, along with text stating that Vladimir Potanin’s "Norilsk Nickel" supports this aggression. Activists also hung a sign indicating that "Norilsk Nickel" subsidizes the war.
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