Eye of the storm

AT FIRST sight Finnbay—"helping you to navigate in the detail [sic] when you are in Finland"—looks odd only for its Borat-worthy syntax. It mainly focusses on the joys of ex-pat life in Finland, though this alarmist story about Russian military exercises on the Finnish border was picked up by the reputable American NBC. 

But Finnish investigative journalists are scrambling to uncover the site's ownership and funding: so far they have found a phoney address, no phone, and a seeming lack of any legal existence. The Finnish foreign ministry has removed Finnbay from the list of English-language links on its official "This is Finland" site. Two foreign-policy experts, Mika Aaltola of the Finnish Institute for International Affairs and Continue reading