The majority of the country's population supported joining the alliance.
Beer producers in Finland reacted quickly to the country's accession to NATO and released Otan beer, which is named after the event. This was reported by the Finnish newspaper Yle.
“On the one hand, it translates from Finnish as” I'll take a beer “, on the other – otan can be considered an anagram of NATO, and thirdly – in French, the abbreviation NATO sounds like OTAN. .
It is noted that the brewery plans to send a batch of NATO beer to the Parliament's beer club, the Finnish Defense Forces Headquarters and the President's Office.
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Earlier, the US Chargé d'Affaires said that Ukraine can “bypass” the MAP on its way to NATO.
Russia has already threatened Sweden and Finland's “consequences” in the event of NATO membership. Moscow is reacting nervously to this prospect of Alliance enlargement. But will Russia open a second front in the Baltic Sea? This is stated in the article by Alina Gritsenko Sweden on its way to NATO: what will Russia say? ».
