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Finnish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic unions will quit global media federation in protest at 'corruptive activity,' including allowing Russian state media journalists in Ukraine to stay as members, Finnish union says
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) A group of Nordic journalists' unions said Tuesday they have left the International Federation of Journalists, which the Norwegian association accused of failing to react to the existence of a Russian media union in occupied areas of Ukraine.
"We call this corruptive activity," Hanne Aho, the chairwoman of the Union of Journalists in Finland, told Reuters, adding the four Nordic unions would resign from the IFJ on Tuesday. Leader of the Norwegian Union of Journalists, Dag Idar Tryggestad, said the unions had fought for years to put in place democratic rules on IFJ elections as well as transparency around decisions and spending.