Jon Krister Hellevig (26 February 1962 – 26 May 2020) was a Finnish lawyer and businessman who worked in Russia since the early 1990s.
He was the managing partner of the Moscow-based law company Hellevig, Klein & Usov Llc.
[4] During the banking crisis, when Hellevig had to consider a new direction for his career, he travelled with his wife to the Soviet Union to visit her relatives.
Hellevig started to study the language and was posted to Moscow by Finnish construction company Haka for consulting in its partly owned joint venture Sofinamtrans.
Hellevig led the company which has locations in Russia in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Tver and Yekaterinburg, as well as Kyiv in Ukraine and Helsinki in Finland.
In his writings, he supported Putin and claimed that Western media are biased or lying about the political situation in Russia.
[2] Hellevig thought that Western countries will eventually recognize Russian rule in the Crimean peninsula.
[citation needed] In May 2015, Newsweek magazine reported that the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) is preparing itself for a crisis situation by sending informational letters to army reservists.