{"id":2039,"date":"2025-04-15T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/eu-states-capital-elects-mayor-with-russian-roots\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:02:08","slug":"eu-states-capital-elects-mayor-with-russian-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/eu-states-capital-elects-mayor-with-russian-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"EU state\u2019s capital elects mayor with Russian roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Daniel Sazonov to serve as Helsinki\u2019s new mayor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"228\"><strong data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"176\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"594\">Daniel Sazonov, the son of Russian immigrants, has been elected the next mayor of Helsinki, according to the Finnish national broadcaster Yle, which cited the results of the municipal election on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"596\" data-end=\"834\">Although both the conservative National Coalition Party and their main rivals, the Social Democrats, secured 21 seats each on the city council, the conservatives will appoint the new mayor after winning a larger share of the popular vote.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"1171\">Born in Helsinki in 1993, Sazonov holds a law degree. According to his personal website, his parents are Ingrian Finns who emigrated from Russia. The historical region of Ingria spans from Lake Ladoga to the Karelian Isthmus, encompassing the area around present-day St. Petersburg. Sazonov became a Finnish citizen at the age of nine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1300\">He was first elected to the Helsinki City Council in 2017 and was appointed deputy mayor for social affairs and health in 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.03\/thumbnail\/67e5947a85f54058ea2d77a4.jpg\" alt=\"Helsinki, Finland\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/614870-finland-nato-membership-russia\/\">Finland risks becoming a \u2018battlefield\u2019 against Russia \u2013 former EU adviser<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1302\" data-end=\"1564\">According to Yle, Sazonov previously wrote columns for the now-defunct Russian-language newspaper <em data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"218\">Spektr<\/em> and its successor, <em data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"255\">Finskaya Gazeta<\/em>. He reportedly severed ties with the publication in 2022 due to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1566\" data-end=\"1841\"><em>\u201cI don\u2019t want to have any dealings with parties that support Russia\u2019s position \u2026 In light of the current information, writing for the newspaper was a mistake,\u201d<\/em> he wrote on X in February. <em>\u201cI haven\u2019t been to Russia in years and have no ties there,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1843\" data-end=\"2010\">During the Cold War, Finland maintained relatively friendly relations with the Soviet Union. The close ties continued for decades after the collapse of the Socialist Bloc.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2012\" data-end=\"2200\">Since 2022, however, Finland has imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Moscow. In 2023, the Nordic country abandoned its long-standing policy of non-alignment and officially joined NATO.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A politician of Russian origin has been elected as the new mayor of Helsinki Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EU state\u2019s capital elects mayor with Russian roots - Leading the AI News Frontier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/eu-states-capital-elects-mayor-with-russian-roots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EU state\u2019s capital elects mayor with Russian roots - 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