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"Removing Russian from their list of official languages"? It was never an official language in the first place.

• IAmBroom 1y ago
  In the distant past of the 1990s, it was.
  • nradov 1y ago
    Right, under Soviet military occupation.
    • hollerith 1y ago
      There was no military occupation of Finland in the 1990s.
      • nradov 1y ago
        A was referring to the Baltic countries, as per the comment from @kibwen above.
        • hollerith 1y ago
          Sorry, my bad.
    • wbl 1y ago
      "Do you have Russian soldiers in Finland?" "Yes, hundreds of thousands" "Where are they stationed?" "Along the border, six feet deep".
  • rmind 1y ago
    It was the case during the Soviet occupation and briefly during the transitional period, but otherwise - no, it wasn't. For example, in 1990, Latvia simply restored its 1922 constitution (still in effect today, although with some amendments) which enacted Latvian as the sole official language. This has also been the case with Lithuanian and Estonian constitutions, respectively.