How Has Finland Managed to Rebuff Russian Interference?

In this week’s Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s editor-in-chief, Judah Grunstein, managing editor, Frederick Deknatel, and associate editor, Omar H. Rahman, discuss a tale of two corruption scandals in Israel and South Africa. For the Report, Mackenzie Weinger talks with Andrew Green about why Finland is in the vanguard of efforts to counter Russia’s use of hybrid threats to undermine Western democracies.

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This episode of Trend Lines was produced and edited by Andrew Green, a freelance journalist based in Berlin focusing on health and human rights issues. You can view his work at www.theandrewgreen.com.

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