Long o in Finnish is oo, ö is pronounced different and could also be pronounced as long öö.

Despite ideological relatedness they really weren't in good terms. China and Soviet Union even had an armed border conflict in 1969. They've also had those old area disputes still in 2000s as well.

Linux Mint already has an alternative Debian edition maintained.

At least they've had (bad) attempts at blocking adblockers recently. Search function has became almost unusable etc.