**VLADIMIR PUTIN LECTURED THE LEADERS OF THE NORDIC COUNTRIES ON HISTORY — THE FINANCIAL TIMES**

**Vladimir Putin devoted most of his telephone conversation with Alexander Stubb and Jonas Gahr Støre to delivering a lecture on medieval Slavic history**, thereby emphasizing the difficulties Europe faces in trying to defend its positions at the upcoming peace negotiations with Russia.

**Putin made the Scandinavian leaders listen to a long speech about what the Kremlin called "the root causes of the conflict**," three people familiar with the content of the conversation said. 

**The prospects for an immediate ceasefire, Ukraine's main demand, were practically not discussed**, the sources added.

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