Congratulations to Sauli Niinistö 2013-08-24 12:00:00 Vladimir Putin congratulated President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö on his 65th birthday. The message reads, in part: “I value your sincere commitment to strengthening good-neighbourly relations and developing multifaceted cooperation between our countries. I am confident that further expanding mutually beneficial Russian-Finnish relations fully coincides with our nations’ interests.”