Jon hellevig karita mattila biography

But what is actually happening is this (this chart includes today's figures):

Finland has been in recession for most of the last three years. True, towards the end of it did look as if it was beginning to recover. But that was a damp squib. Today's figures show that the economy contracted by 1% in the second quarter of  

So what on earth went wrong? It doesn't appear to have been the financial crisis. Finland did get clobbered, yes - it suffered a deep recession in , as the chart shows - but it bounced back quickly and in was growing at a highly respectable 5%. Then it collapsed. It would be easy to blame that on the Greeks, wouldn't it? Or maybe the oil price rises at that time?

No. This is not a story of Eurozone macroeconomic imbalances and oil price shocks. Rather, it is the sad tale of a country that allowed itself to become dependent not just on one industry, but on one company. 

Some years ago, I went for an interview at Pfizer's plant in Sandwich, Kent. As I drove through the town, I was struck by how dependent the local economy had become on Pfizer, its only significant employer. I found myself wondering what would happen if it ever left. And in February , it did. Three thousand people l

Finnish lawyer and businessman (–)

Jon Krister Hellevig (26 February – 26 May ) was a Finnish lawyer and businessman who worked in Russia since the early s. He was the managing partner of the Moscow-based law company Hellevig, Klein & Usov Llc. Hellevig wrote books about Russian legislation and society and wrote columns for Russian media.

Hellevig was a candidate in the European parliament election in During the campaign he caused a stir when he berated the opera singer Karita Mattila in a vulgar way, after she had refused to perform under the leadership of a Russian conductor who supported Russian President Vladimir Putin's policy in Ukraine.

Newsweek magazine used Hellevig as a source to comment on letters sent to Finnish army reservists. In the original version of the article, the letters were regarded as preparation for a crisis situation. The article was edited and Hellevig's comments removed after a response by the Finnish Defence Forces.

Hellevig openly supported Vladimir Putin's government and the separatist movement in Ukraine.

He died unexpectedly in Moscow on May 26, from COVID

Work career

Interbank

In the late s Hellevig was co-founder of Interbank, which focused on handling transactions between different banks in Finland. The market dropped soon after the beginning of the Finnish banking crisis and the bank was eventually sold.

Sofinamtrans

During the banking crisis, when Hellevig had to consider a new direction for his career, he travelled with his wife to the Soviet Union to visit her relatives. Soon after his return, the Soviet coup d'état attempt took place. After seeing on television Yeltsin giving his famous speech from atop a tank, Hellevig went to a book store and bought a Russian language book for beginners. Hellevig started to study the language and was posted to Moscow by Finnish construction company Haka for consulting in its partly owned joint venture Sofinamtrans. Hellevig was th

The Year in Music: International

By Keith Clarke

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko got the Winter Olympics off to a harmonious start in Sochi, singing the Olympic Hymn at the opening ceremony, but slippery slopes awaited many personalities in the world of music. Pop fiddler Vanessa Mae revealed another string to her bow as a skiing pro, but after she tried her glissandi on the slopes a storm blew up over the circumstances of her qualifying for the Olympics. Soprano Montserrat Caballé was investigated for alleged tax fraud; deaf composer Mamoru Samuragochi, known as “Japan’s Beethoven,” was exposed as a fake who had been contracting out his composition work. U.K. Culture Secretary Maria Miller was forced to quit following an expenses scandal. She had been in the job just 18 months, hardly time for her to distinguish between Rimbaud and Rambo.

Canadian baritone Gerald Finley kept to the moral high ground, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro for a musicians’ charity. Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber was forced to end his playing his own imprint, Universal coining the Peral Music label spe- career because of a neck injury. Mr. and Mrs. Rattle announced the safe arrival of a third child.

As Scotland prepared to vote for or against independence from the U.K., most Scottish musicians were curiously coy about their voting intentions, fearing a backlash. “Are Scottish artists too afraid to say No?” wondered the Daily Telegraph. Apparently not.

John Tavener was remembered at a memorial service in Westminster Abbey.

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