“I am already looking forward to meeting my future colleagues and work partners at the Finnish Embassy in Moscow,” he said in a comment to RIA Novosti.
The department noted that Matilainen studied at Yaroslavl University in Russia.
Earlier, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said that trust in relations between Russia and Finland would eventually be restored.
Press Secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov reported that Russia has never posed a threat to Sweden and Finland.