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Former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin will visit Kyiv 12 September to present her memoir. The presentation will take place at the Sense bookstore on Khreshchatyk; entry is free with prior registration. In her memoirs the politician recalls her visits to the Ukrainian capital and her meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The book is titled "No Action, No Hope: Memoirs About the Courage to Be a Leader." The presentation was announced by the Osnovy publishing house, which published the author's book. The conversation with Sanna Marin at the bookstore will be an opportunity for readers to hear firsthand about her political career.
"Despite all the challenges we face, we must remember: there is hope if there is action," said former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
In the memoirs the author recalls four years in the office of prime minister, during which she led a government coalition made up exclusively of women, oversaw Finland's accession to NATO, and enacted climate change legislation. Marin was 34 years old when she was elected to the left-centrist coalition in 2019, which entered history as being led exclusively by women. She gained international prominence for her decisive opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Finland's rapid accession to NATO, which ended decades of neutrality.
Support for Ukraine remains a theme of Marin's public appearances
Sanna Marin has repeatedly emphasized the importance of Western support for Ukraine since her premiership, when Finland joined the Alliance after the start of the full-scale invasion. Her current book presentation in Kyiv continues this line of public support—now in the form of personal recollections about the country's struggle and meetings with Ukrainian leadership.
The issue of the resilience of Ukraine's cultural infrastructure during the war remains relevant today. Informator previously reported that thousands of books from Ukrainian publishers burned after a Russian drone strike on the Convii printing warehouse on 28 August, where products for the Readeat network, Book.ua, and other publishers were stored. Attacks on warehouses, printers, and bookstores have become regular over the past year, and publishers are trying to rebuild logistics by dispersing stock across multiple locations.
We also wrote that Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak met at one time with former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who came to Kyiv as part of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He then thanked her for participating in the International Working Group on Ukraine's security and Euro-Atlantic integration.
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