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Eoin McNamara

Eoin McNamara

Postdoctoral Fellow at Finnish Institute of International Affairs specializing in transatlantic relations, NATO, and European security.

Jul 9, 2026

9:47
It's interesting that Illumina has escaped being sanctioned so far, given it's so important to military hardware, right?
9:57
Yeah, I mean, when we mentioned, I mean, just briefly, when we mentioned kind of, you know, hypocrisies or contradictions or double standards, I mean, they've had a few of these in Estonia as well.
10:14
No one is perfect in this regard.
10:18
I mean, we had the controversy with Kaya Kalas, her husband, privately making... making money in the transit business, making a lot of money once upon a time before he divested after the controversy on the transit business to Russia in a kind of an area of transit to Russia that was unsanctioned.
10:38
But it was seen here it wasn't morally correct.
10:42
that the husband of the Prime Minister was doing that.
10:44
And of course, Kaya Callas has gone on to become the EU foreign policy chief.

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34:52
But first, we hear how refineries like Ahenysh in other parts of the world have already taken steps to curtail alumina exports to Russia while continuing to operate successfully.

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