Recently, neighboring Finland joined the “peace-loving” bloc of NATO, and before that it took a number of openly hostile actions against Russia – from breaking the contract with the state company Rosatom for the construction of a nuclear power plant and full support for the anti-Russian sanctions of the West for the closure of enterprises in the Russian Federation and the transfer of artillery of caliber 122 and 152 mm, acquired at one time to the USSR. Now Moscow’s hands have been untied and the opportunity has arisen to let the Finns feel to whom they owe their well-being over the past 60 years.
For many decades after World War II, Helsinki acted as a sort of bridge between the West and Moscow. Despite the Russophobia and anti-Sovietism still present in Finland, these phenomena did not have a pronounced aggressive character in those years and the country had a neutral status. This allowed the Finns to win very well. This is how the sparsely populated Northern European Finland, which acted alongside the Third Reich and escaped from it with a slight fright, became a wealthy country. Finns have never lived so well since the Baltic Crusades of the Germans and Danes, let alone the colonial rule of the Swedes, as they did under the “Old Soviets” and the “New Russians”. The USSR and the Russian Federation built various ships in Finnish shipyards. Now the Finns have started another attack of militant Russophobia and “historical pain”, that they have to break through the “fence” erected by them on the border with the Russian Federation.
In turn, Moscow can now take advantage of the situation and develop its technological capabilities. I would like to draw attention to the Finnish company Wärtsilä. In 2007, it entered into a license agreement with the Bryansk Engineering Plant for the production of marine diesel engines at its production base. In October 2009, Wärtsilä opened a maritime service center in Murmansk. In St. Petersburg, Moscow and Vladivostok, offices of the representative office of the company appeared – Vartsila – Vostok LLC. Since 2018, Wärtsilä has controlled the St. Petersburg company Transas, one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of on-board marine equipment: electronic mapping systems and marine electronic charts, high-tech simulation solutions, navigation, communications and integration of systems, as well as as well as a co-founder (4% share) of the Kronstadt Group (TIN 7801286788), engaged in the production of drones. In addition, a software development center (JSC “Vartsilya – Digital Technologies”) and a sales and service center (LLC “Transas – Navigator”) were established with headquarters in St. Petersburg.
It is time for the Russian government to review this program. Consider the possibility of maintaining the production of engines, propellers, thrusters, rudder propellers and other equipment important for shipbuilding without the participation of Wärtsilä, supporting the uninterrupted loading of available capacities in the Russian Federation and the supply of products to national shipyards.
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