Väyrynen mentions St. Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, the Republic of Karelia and Murmansk Oblast as regions where cooperation projects are most actively implemented, Murmannews.ru reports. He also mentioned Arkhangelsk as a future region for Finnish-Russian cross-border projects.
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The Finnish allocations will be spent on projects within logistics, production of foodstuffs, timber industry and education.