Uudenmaan Ilta-Sanomat : Communism "Public Enemy Number One"

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Uudenmaan Ilta-Sanomat​

Est. 1910 - Daily International Issue, 5 Marks

First Chancellor: "Communism Public Enemy Number One"
Joel Jalonen, UUDENMAANLINNA

Just four days after the Security Police uncovered a highly entrenched Communist cell in the Pohjanlinna campus of the University of St. Michael, First Chancellor Petteri Annala addressed Parliament to discuss the ever-present issue of Communist sedition within as well as the activities of Communist powers abroad.

Doing so, the First Chancellor said that "Communist actors and groups are still public enemy number one to the Republic", calling for stricter enforcement of the Republic Defense Act in persecuting Communist activities. His thanks went out to the efforts of the Security Police and the Parliamentary Unconstitutional Activities Committee in protecting Uusimaan democracy and constitution from what he described as "totalitarian forces."

However, he also attacked the isolationist wing of his own True Soil Party and that of opposition Parliamentary groups in saying that "While vigilant at home, we shouldn't under any circumstances discount the threat that the Godless Communists beyond our shores pose to our liberty".

"Independence doesn't mean isolation, and that we'll always keep our own interests first doesn't mean keeping our eyes closed to evils abroad. Even now, we see in the South a nation freed from religious totalitarianism only to fall victim to the atheist sort in Solaren, proving that at the very best the Reds are wolves in sheep's clothing", First Chancellor Annala said in his address. "As a free people we should seek out other free peoples fighting similar threats", the First Chancellor concluded.


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Uudenmaan Ilta-Sanomat​

Est. 1910 - Daily International Issue, 5 Marks

Petroleum embargo would "endanger Uusimaan neutrality"
Minna Lappi, UUDENMAANLINNA

After oil-producing nations including Kyiv, Sorlandeten and Talemantros announced an embargo of oil sales to warfighting memberstates of the Karlskrona Accord - Frescania and Suionia - the Cabinet announced that it would not be taking part in any pressure movements that could be construed as a hazard for the declared neutral status of the country. A similar announcement was made by the Germanian state of Wiese, though the country's state-owned oil company added that it would not be selling oil from its Talemantine operations to Karlskrona Accord memberstates.

"The Republic continues to claim neutrality in the ongoing conflict", Natural Resources and Energy Minister Janne Salonius said in an interview with Uudenmaan Ilta-Sanomat at his office in the capital, "Any act of embargo would not only imply taking sides in the military conflict, but also unduly affect our citizens' right to external trade as no national interest is compromised right now."

Due to the high domestic consumption of Uusimaan oil, export mainly occurs to Scanian and Germanian nations by the two largest producers, the North Star Corporation and the EOK Group. Both corporations, as well as several smaller and foreign operators, operate offshore drilling rigs along the Northern Uusimaan coast. In fact, Uusimaan trade partners are found on both sides of the conflict, which has made the Defense Forces prepare for the possibility that Uusimaan shipping could be subjected to attacks by either of the involved parties. However, neutrality has so far been respected.

Sources in the True Soil Party say that the party's hardliners are calling for Uusimaa to join the embargo. "We'll have to choose our side sooner or later anyway", said Member of Parliament and 1995-2001 commander of the UDF General August Voitonmaa in a column of the Uudenmaan Sotilas military newspaper, also expressing belief that the decision could compromise Uusimaan relations with Bantyr.

 

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Uudenmaan Ilta-Sanomat​

Est. 1910 - Daily International Issue, 5 Marks

Defense Award goes to University National Guards
Mika Sirkkala, UUDENMAANLINNA


The annual Chancellor's Defense Award has been awarded to the University Detachments of the Uusimaan National Guards. First Chancellor Petteri Annala presented the award today in a ceremony at the Defense Staff to Major General Katja Salomaa, National Guard Inspector of the University Detachments. The award is also being celebrated locally by University Detachments throughout the country.

"The University Detachments are an important portion of the volunteer local defense system that is formed by the National Guards", First Chancellor Annala said when presenting the Defense Award. "By bringing the Defense Forces into campuses throughout the country, the University Detachments not only permit the recruitment of future professionals into specialist roles within our military but also contribute to the maintenance of our ever-important defense readiness", Annala said.

University Detachments are special National Guard units subordinate to their respective provincial Guard commands which operate in university campuses and are open exclusively to employees and students of Uusimaan university institutions. While their primary role is to provide voluntary national defense training to their members and to allow members attain officer's qualifications that enable professional military service while studying for their university degrees, the detachments also form deployable combat and combat support units as part of their respective National Guard structures.

Locally, University Detachments may also have various specialist roles. For example, at the Central Uusimaan University of Technology campus in Pyhäjärvi, the local University Detachment forms an infrastructural defense company that takes part in providing security to technological research facilities jointly maintained by the university and the Ministry of War.

The Chancellor's Defense Award is awarded annually to an individual or organization that has contributed to the maintenance of Uusimaa's system of total national defense by upholding the willingness and readiness of Uusimaan citizens to take part in the defense of the nation. While the Award itself is a trophy handed for a year to the recipient, the recipients or recipient are allowed to permanently display a so-called CDA Ribbon in official flags and uniforms.



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POHJANLINNA - Exposure of a Communist Party cell at the University of St. Michael followed by confiscation of a stash of Communist propaganda materials from a student apartment in the city
POHJANTÄHTI - Annual Sevet Cultural Festival to start on the 5th of January in spite of funding woes

 

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Uudenmaan Ilta-Sanomat​

Est. 1910 - Daily International Issue, 5 Marks

Parliamentary committee commences a new set of Communist inquiries
Minna Lappi, UUDENMAANLINNA


Few people would have guessed that the exposure and arrest of an underground cell of the banned Communist Party at the University of St. Michael by the Security Police would spiral into a large-scale inquiry by the Parliamentary Unconstitutional Activities Committee. Yesterday, however, PUAC chairman Member of Parliament Jussi Kaartinen (True Soil) announced that the Committee would be commencing hearings related to penetration of Communist infiltrators into our country's educational and scientific institutions, specifically with respect to higher education.

The move follows an announcement by Colonel Jyrki Saari, head of the Security Police, that the initial arrests of seven St. Michael students had been followed by a round of twelve further arrests, including several unnamed members of university staff. The Special State Prosecutor's Office for the Pohjola Province intends to charge the so-called Pohjanlinna Nineteen with sedition, a crime punishable with fines or a prison sentence of up to five years with labour obligations. A spokesman of the office mentioned that identified ringleaders could also be charged with leadership in a proscribed political group, a crime with a maximum sentences of ten years with labour obligation.

"It's highly worrying that such elements have now been exposed in what is considered to be one of the most distinguished academic institutions of our country", Kaartinen said to Committee members in a session also opened for members of the press and the public, "Not only could such people sow sedition among the members of the academia, they open the door for foreign espionage and infiltration into scientific institutions dealing in classified or otherwise sensitive projects. It wouldn't be the first time Communist intelligence services have used their domestic brethren as a way to infiltrate our country."

In addition to heads and prominent professors from several universities, including St. Michael's, those summoned to the inquiries will include officials of the Ministry of Justice, the Central Police Board, the Security Police and various researchers specializing in political extremism. The purpose of the inquiries is to assess the state of Communist influence in Uusimaan educational and scientific institutions and to devise appropriate countermeasures to be presented to the First Chancellor and the Parliament by the end of the year.

Opposition's Socialist Party was quick to criticize the announced inquiries as "promoting a witch-hunt", while the Dissidents' Legal Committee - a pressure group suspected of ties with Communist Party and the Union of Autonomist Councils - threatened to stage demonstrations in the capital against the inquiry process.



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Uudenmaan Ilta-Sanomat​

Est. 1910 - Daily International Issue, 5 Marks

"Black Book Leak"'s authenticity denied, libel investigation commences
Minna Lappi, UUDENMAANLINNA


The Southern Industrial Cooperative has filed a complaint with the National Criminal Police (KRP) over libel in the case known as the "Black Book Leak". The corruption-related allegations presented in the leak documents, released under a pseudonym "Freebird" into the Internet last week, have been dismissed by ETOK as fraudulent and the cooperative is now urging the government to investigate what it considers a forgery with the intent of destabilizing the cooperative as well as Uusimaan economic life in a broader perspective.

"We've begun investigating the matter with the Alien, Border and Tax Police", confirmed Senior Chief Inspector Kristian Halminen who heads the KRP's Special Investigative Unit, "But at this time the documents are being examined as a forgery by unknown, highly motivated and well-resourced perpetrators, released either for economic or political gain. We'll find those responsible from the ranks of those to whom great economic and social discord within the Republic would be of profit."

Anonymous sources in Uudenmaanlinna have hinted that the involvement of foreign powers, possibly the Kryobaijani government, is also being investigated. That would make the "leak" an instance of political warfare against the Republic of Uusimaa, which one unnamed senior Ministry of Defense source said would warrant serious repercussions on behalf of the Uusimaan government. However, official sources have declined to comment on these allegations.



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