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  • 2019-04-15 (xsd:date)
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  • On 18 February, the Finnish MEP Heidi Hautala claimed that Finnish National Coalition Party and United Russia have been fraternal parties for a long time. The National Coalition Party denies the cooperation with United Russia as well as sharing the same ideology, although there are reports of cooperation between the parties in the past. The National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) is a large centre-right political party in Finland. United Russia (Yedinaya Rossiya) is the ruling political party in Russia. The relations between the parties have been discussed in Finland several times before. A Finnish blogger and graphic designer Kasper Strömman posted on 16 February an Instagram picture of Vladimir Putin and Petteri Orpo, the chairman of Finnish National Coalition Party Kokoomus, in front of their political posters. In the picture, the similarity between the graphic design of the slogans behind Putin and Orpo is noticeable. The original publisher, Strömman, is known for posting parodic pictures often related to graphic design. On February 18 Finnish MEP and Vice President of the European Parliament Heidi Hautala reposted Kasper Strömman’s Instagram post of Putin and Orpo and claimed in her tweet that ‘’This conformity can’t be a surprise because the National Coalition Party and United Russia have been fraternal parties for a long time’’. Hautala herself has a long history of representing the Finnish Green Party. The term fraternal party" can be defined in several ways. Fraternal parties often share the same political ideology but their views on some topics can differ a lot. We found definitions for the term from Finnish language regulator Kotus and Wikipedia. When we asked our sources about if the parties are or have ever been fraternal parties (en)
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