kotiryssä
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'''''' (jocular, ) was a Finnish term for a Soviet or Russian contact person of a Finnish politician, bureaucrat, businessman or other important person.
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'''' (jocular, ) was a Finnish term for a Soviet or Russian contact person of a Finnish politician, bureaucrat, businessman or other important person.
The term kotiryssä referred especially to Soviet diplomats or spies stationed in Helsinki in the 1960s and 1970s who were designated by the Soviet government to gather information from specific persons in Finnish politics and government. This system was initiated by Viktor Vladimirov who was stationed in Helsinki repeatedly (1955–1960, 1970–1971, 1977–1984).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kotiryssä” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.