Overview
- Finland’s Foreign Ministry said the embassy in Moscow received the book with a diplomatic note, according to Helsingin Sanomat.
- The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on December 29 that it would send the volume as a New Year gift by diplomatic note.
- The book is titled Black Book: A Short History of Swedish and Finnish Russophobia and was provided in a Finnish-language edition.
- MFA spokesperson Maria Zakharova framed the publication as a compilation of facts and testimonies intended for officials.
- Finland’s embassy said it passed research-based histories of Finland to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Finnish ministry stated.