finland s conservative leader petteri orpo wins a nail biting three way election race, defeating prime minister sanna marin. hello and welcome. i m ben thompson. russia s investigators have detained a 26 year old woman, darya trepova, in connection with the murder of the pro war blogger vladen tatarsky, who was killed by a bomb in st petersburg on sunday. media reports said the explosion occurred shortly after he had been given a statuette by a woman at an event in a cafe. russia s security service has accused ukraine of being behind the blast, but ukrainian officials have denied this. a short time ago russia s anti terrorism committee said it believes the attack was planned by ukrainian secret services, jointly with people cooperating with jailed opposition leader alexei navalny s anti corru ption foundation. our correspondent will vernon in moscow has more. i m just seeing a short statement that has come in from the russian investigative committee, which is russia s versi
former kosovo president hashim thaci has pleaded not guilty to ten charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court in the hague. the accusations of persecution, murder and torture stem from kosovo s independence war against serbia in the 19905 thaci and three co defendants, all former close associates in the guerrilla kosovo liberation army and later in peacetime politics, all pleaded not guilty shortly after hearings got under way. the leader of finland s main centre right party, petteri orpo, has won a tight election race in finland and is likely to be the country s new prime minister. his national coalition party won 20.8% of the vote with the right wing populist finns party coming in a close second with a record 20.1% share of the vote. it was a bitter defeat for prime minister sanna marin s party, who trailed with 19.9% of the vote.