Our Arctic Neighbors: Echoes of Palin in Finland’s new prime minister? - June 20, 2010

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryJune 2010

Vol. 15, No. 25

Week of June 20, 2010

Our Arctic Neighbors: Echoes of Palin in Finland’s new prime minister?

In one of her first statements to the press, Finland’s soon-to-be prime minister, Mari Kiviniemi, said she will invite Russian Premier Vladimir Putin to join her on a moose hunt.

On June 11, the 41-year old Kiviniemi won a vote in the Center Party’s congress and thus becomes new leader of the party, which is a senior partner in the Finnish government coalition, the Barents Observer reported.

In a few days she will take over the chair as Finnish prime minister from party colleague Matti Vanhanen.

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