Norway and Finland demanded that the "Financial Times" correct an article in which Putin told them about the history of the Slavs for an hour and a half Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Storr denied the Financial Times' publication of a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin, in which the President of Finland Alexander Staab also participated. According to Stora, the Russian president did not give them a long lecture on the medieval history of the Slavs, as he previously claimed in the newspaper. "That's not true. We asked the Financial Times to correct it because it is not true," the Norwegian prime minister told TV2. According to him, Putin did ask for time to present his version of events, but he was talking about a history that began in 2014, not the Middle Ages. According to Stora, the interlocutors were given about the same amount of time, and part of the conversation was taken in translation. Finland, on behalf of both countries, appealed to the FT system to correct the material, but the newspaper refused and stated that it was confident in its publication. Earlier, the Financial Times reported that Putin devoted a significant part of the negotiations to stories about the medieval history of the Slavs and his explanation of the war against Ukraine. According to the publication, Stubb and Stora did not interrupt him, trying to understand how ready he is for dialogue with Europe. The conversation took place on October 27, and instead of the planned less than 30 minutes, it lasted about an hour and a half. The Finnish and Norwegian leaders were expected to discuss possible ways to end the war with Putin before the November talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi. No specific agreements were announced following the conversation.