The former head of the National Land Survey of Finland (1991-2012), Jarmo Ratia told on meeting with war veterans that Russia (namely, the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin) owns a land area of 1.78 hectares in the municipality of Saltvik on Åland. He explained his story by changed political situation in the world, informs the ee24.com citing Finnish Yle.
The land plot coastline, owned by Russia, is about 200 meters long; there is not any single building there. Previously, this piece of Aland Islands belonged to the Finnish-German family couple and after the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947 was signed it came into possession of the Soviet Union. It is also reported that in 2009, Russia's consul in the main city of the Aland Islands – Mariehamn arrived at the local land service branch with the document, in which the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded to sign away the part of Norrgård estate to the Office of the President of the Russian Federation.
Aland Islands are an archipelago in the Baltic Sea at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, the autonomy within Finland. Islands are inhabited by Finnish Swedes and the territory has monolingual status.
The Åland Islands or Åland. Photo: maps.google.ru