Finnish Foreign Ministry allows Russia’s cultural center to pay taxes

Finland has allowed the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Helsinki to pay property taxes in the amount of about 20,000 euros, Report informs referring to the Finnish media.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland has eased sanctions against the Russian Center for Science and Culture, operating in Helsinki,” the report says.

The payment of taxes is a permitted exception to EU sanctions. The Foreign Ministry stressed that the bank accounts of the Finnish diplomatic mission in Russia are still frozen.

On April 18, the Finnish authorities had decided in connection with the EU anti-Russian sanctions to seize the land and building of the Russian Center for Science and Culture and seven apartments in Helsinki.