Unit for Russia
The Unit for Russia is responsible for:
- monitoring of the situation in Russia
- bilateral relations between Finland and Russia
- the EU's relations with Russia
- issues in international organisations that are related to Russia
- tasks of the Secretariat of the Finnish-Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation
- tasks of the ministerial group of the government on Russian affairs
- ITA-10@formin.fi
Fax
- +358 9 160 556 21
Personnel

Niklas Lindqvist
Director
- +358 295 351 517
Political Affairs
Johanna Birkstedt
Team Leader
- +358 295 351 817
Jyrki Terva
Desk Officer
EU-Russia
- +358 295 350 939
Kirsi Lipponen
Special assignment
- +358 295 350 774
Bilateral and Commercial and Economic Relations
Kaisa Honka-Hallila
Team Leader
Timo Tolvanen
Administrative Officer
Maarit Keitanen
Desk Officer
- +358 295 350 036
Regional cooperation

Jari Vilén
Senior Adviser
Ambassador for Barents and Northern Dimension
- +358 295 350 381

Minna Kokkonen
Assistant Desk Officer
- +358 295 350 738
Anita Koivuselkä
Specialist
- +358 295 351 466

Antti Virtanen
Desk Officer
- +358 295 350 739
E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@formin.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.