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Originally Posted by oleg
There are lots of links, but they all are in Russian, regretful and useless for you... This issue isn't that interesting to me either to dig comprehending info, sorry. In a word - this small spot of land poses great interest for very influential people who would like to set a sort of offshore customs toll zone there and rake the unbelievable income. The Finnish company is like the small fly sitting on their golden mountain. If there would have been Russian, not foreign company, they would brush it off without too much noise. But that company is Finnish and protest of Finns will attract the international attention and cast much daylight on there. IMHO, this is that very case when the care for global commercial image will help to affect on internal corruption.
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Ah, OK.
The forceful claiming of the property began because Finnish company wanted to make very clear cut that they would get the property back after Russians had used it for the time-span of year and-a-half.
If I reacall, the company building the pipeline in the Gulf of Finland is the one who wanted to rent it from the Finns who have 50-year contract of the spot.