Education
Rislakki spent his childhood and youth in Jämsänkoski, completed a Bachelor in political science at the University of Helsinki and worked as a journalist at the Helsingin Sanomat.
Rislakki spent his childhood and youth in Jämsänkoski, completed a Bachelor in political science at the University of Helsinki and worked as a journalist at the Helsingin Sanomat.
Rislakki has worked as a foreign desk writer of Helsingin Sanomat and as Sunday issue reporter, most recently as the correspondent in the Baltic states. Since the beginning af 2002 Rislakki lives in the Latvian coastal resort town Jūrmala, where he works as a freelance journalist, non-fiction writer, and cartoonist. Rislakki is married to the former Latvian ambassador to Finland and Estonia, Anna Žīgure.