Jaakko Tapani Laakso is a Finnish

Finland

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 leftwing politician and member of Parliament since 1991 representing Left Alliance

Left Alliance (Finland)

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. He is a former member of the Communist Party of Finland

Communist Party of Finland

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Laakso graduated from University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

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 in 1973 and has worked for the communist newspaper Tiedonantaja

Tiedonantaja

Tiedonantaja is a Finnish leftist weekly newspaper. It is currently the party organ of the new Communist Party of Finland . Tiedonantaja was founded in 1968 and it served as the paper of the taistoist minority faction of the old SKP until the opposition was expelled in the mid-1980s. In the late...

. His son, Tapio

Tapio Laakso

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, is former chairman of the Federation of Green Youth and Students

Federation of Green Youth and Students

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Suvi-Anne Siimes

Suvi-Anne Siimes

Sini Maaria Suvi-Anne Siimes is a former chair of the Finnish Left Alliance. She quit the party in 2006 because she did not want to support the party's former taistoists ....

, former chair of Laakso's political party, stated in her book Politiikan julkisivu (2007) that Laakso advances Russian interests.

Sources

• Finnish Parliament:Jaakko Laakso