Finnish President Sauli Niinistoe said the world risks sinking into a political deadlock as dangerous as the cold war that dominated relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union decades ago, Bloomberg News informed.
As the Finnish head of state prepares to meet President Vladimir Putin in the southern Russian town of Sochi tomorrow, he said talks between the two will focus on finding a way to defuse tensions surrounding the conflict in Ukraine.
“I have a feeling that we’re on the brink of cold war,” Niinistoe told reporters at his residence in Helsinki today. He will use the meeting with Putin to find a way “to bring this terrible spiral of mistrust to an end,” he said.
