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So when Heidi Hautala, a Green MP and former environment minister [sic], blasted declining democratic standards in Vladimir Putin's Russia, the sense of shock in Helsinki was palpable. .... The nervous reaction to Ms Hautala's remarks has provided a faint echo of the self-censorship of the Soviet era, when the term "Finlandisation" was coined to describe countries that quietly tailored their politics and policies to suit Moscow. "The mindset has not totally changed. It's still there in the back of our heads," said Lasse Lehtinen, a Finnish MEP. Ms Hautala's worries were well founded, he added. "There is a general, growing feeling of unease about Russia for the past two years or so. We don't say it, but we think it."

The Guardian article: "Putin's shadow falls over Finland", 2011 [53]

In 2008, Hautala published the book "Venäjä-teesit. Vakaus vai vapaus" about Russia. [54] In 2015, news media reported that she was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country. [55] [56]

Personal life

Hautala has a son from her relationship with a Finnish artist J. O. Mallander. Hautala has also been in a relationship with a German researcher Carlo Jordan, [57] and was considered close to Russian film director Andrei Nekrasov, a vocal critic of Putin before beginning to produce Russian-friendly propaganda. [58] [59]

Hautala introduced Nekrasov to Bill Browder, whose interview excerpts were used in Nekrasov's film The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes . [60] Despite the pro-Kremlin narrative of the film, Hautala promoted it. She subsequently voted for a motion calling on a restricted use of the EU Magnistky act to direct participation, ruling out sanctions for any one in directly responsible. [61]

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Heidi Hautala
MEP
Heidi Hautala - April 2017.jpg
Heidi Hautala in April 2017
Vice-President of the European Parliament
Assumed office
26 October 2017
Party political offices
Preceded by Chairperson of the Green League
1987–1991
Succeeded by