Don’t confuse honest technical motivations with “technical motivations” here. Starting new projects to grab EU funding is a lot more profitable for the individual companies that get to take part in them. Especially when failure is an option in the end.
I’m not saying that’s the case, but I have experienced one or two EU funded project here and there that didn’t really make efforts to make the jump into a market viable product in the end.
According to russian foreign policy, Finland should be absorbed into Russia when any opportunity presents itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Content
I guess even the right-wingers there aren’t keen on learning a new alphabet.