Staab and Stora emphasized in their conversation with Putin that it was their country's initiative Finnish President Alexander Staab and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stora emphasized that the phone call with Vladimir Putin was their initiative as representatives of their countries and is not related to Europe as a whole, said the press secretary of the Russian head of state Dmitry Peskov. "Both Finland and Norway emphasized that this is their country's initiative, not related to the common Europe," Peskov told the news service Tahitha.