President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niiniste. File photoHELSINKI, June 1 Finnish President Sauli Niiniste supported the debate about changing the name of Belarus in Finnish.
"Good and worthy discussion",» he wrote on social networks, attaching a link with a proposal for renaming.
The potential new version does not use the tracing name «White Russia». Traditionally in Finnish, the word Valko-Venäjä is used, where the word «Russia» (Venäjä) is present. Now Finnish society is proposing to call the country Belarus. Earlier, Sweden and Denmark changed the name of the country to Belarus in the official language, getting rid of the word «Russia» as an integral part of the name. On Sunday, Norway made a similar decision.