There are some well-known vatniks in Finland, but I’d like to introduce them to the international audiences, too. First one I’d like to talk about is a man who goes by the name Janus Putkonen. He is the current “Chief-Editor” of Russian propaganda piece “UMV-Lehti”, which he took over after another Putinist, Juha Korhonen, left this embarrassing position.

“UMV-Lehti” is a Finnish propaganda piece touting Kremlin bullshit such as the biolabs and US blowing up the Nordstream gaspipes.
“UMV-Lehti”, which he took over after another Putinist, Juha Korhonen, left this embarrassing position.

In 2015, Janus moved to the imaginary nation-state of Donetsk where he started “Doni News”, another Kremlin propaganda outlet. His connections (and his monthly salary of about 1220 euros) to the Kremlin was found out in leaked e-mails back in 2016.

Putkonen is still spreading vast amounts of disinformation and propaganda on “UMV-Lehti” and on several channels on Telegram. He also has a program called “Fennostudio” where he rants about NATO, US and EU, usually drunk.

Before becoming a drunken agitator, Janus was working in the theater world and even took part in a Mr Finland beauty contest. Acting is not his strong suite, though, as you can see from the video below.