The situation is very difficult,” Juha Sipilä, the vote-puller and winner of the parliamentary elections 2015, said to me at the Centre party’s election watch gathering in Helsinki’s Töölö district late on Sunday evening. “We need a big change.”
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“From the selection of non-alcoholic beverages we only sell sodas to the minors,” said Alko.
Read MoreFinland places among the top four countries in the world when it comes to the fluency of English.
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The police swarmed everywhere when Lars Vilks, the Swedish caricaturists, who drew Phophet Muhammad’s head into a dog’s body, visited Finland on Tuesday afternoon at Kaivohuone in Helsinki.
We asked Mr. Vilks a few tough questions in the name of free speech.
Lars Vilks, 68, the Swedish caricaturist who has received more death threats than can be counted by fingers and toes, and who is on the militant Islamist organisation al-Qaeda’s hit list and has been under police protection since 2007, will in spite of the threat arrive in Finland on Tuesday in the name of free speech.
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Cats and dogs with a pedigree, ferrets, bunnies and four-toed hedgehogs were lying in their cages and boxes as pet enthusiasts across breed and species barriers summoned at the Helsinki Fair Centre last weekend for PetExpo, the largest pet fair in the country.
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One’s citizenship is not bound by the passport issued by a country. This is the core message of the photo exhibition Suomalaisia (Finns) by Anna Tervahartiala, which opened on Friday at Laterna Magica bookstore in Helsinki’s Kruunhaka district.
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Petri Kotwica’s Henkesi Edestä (For Your Life) is a torturing thriller and will leave you exhausted after the full 1 hour and 32 minutes.
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Eat eggs to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D), where the body isn’t able to keep up and can’t produce enough insulin to keep the blood glucose at normal levels.
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There’s hardly a food store in Finland that doesn’t swear in the name of fair trade in some of its products. Sadly, Easter eggs are not one of them.
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In order to celebrate Maundy Thursday like in in the Bible, I decided to head for the priests’ pop-up bathhouse set up by the priests from the Evangelical church.
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The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, visits Finland to talk European security with his long-time friend, Alexander Stubb.
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“We must welcome researchers and students who bring with them new ideas, for Finland is not home to all wisdom.”
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Mari Rouvi, the communications manager at Finnair, said that as a safety measure “a rule of two” is followed on Finnair’s planes.
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Ray Stevenson, the Hollywood action star, tells about his experience of working with Finns in an interview for Finland Today.
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A crude act of violence shocked the suburb of Tapanila lying on the outskirts of Helsinki when near the railway station, on March 9, a young woman was raped.
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The parliament decided today that a student will have right to student aid while studying for a second degree as well.
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The Fencer premieres on Friday March 13 and is the best Finnish film since Härö’s last masterpiece a decade ago.
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A 50-page strategy for lifting Finland from the prolonged finance crisis was published on Wednesday by Anders Borg, the former Swedish minister of finance.
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A group of high-level guests including King Gustaf of Sweden visit the Santahamina military base on Wednesday as the knot of the cooperation between the Finnish and Swedish military tighten.
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Passengers can now rest in a sleep-tube, officially called the GoSleep pod. Helsinki airport is the first European airport to offer this service, which makes the airport one of the most nap-friendly airports in the world.
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King Carl XVI Gustaf and H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden arrived at the Presidential Palace about 11:10 for the official welcoming ceremony by the Finnish presidential couple, President Sauli Niinistö and Mrs Jenni Haukio.
Read MoreFinland gets ready to receive the king and the queen of Sweden for an official royal state visit from Tuesday, March 3rd to Thursday the 5th.
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Macy Gray’s performance in Helsinki was simply perfect.
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Finland will provide 500,000 euros to help the victims of the conflict in Ukraine where about five million people are in need for humanitarian aid.
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Three people were killed inside a pizzeria in Laukaa on Sunday afternoon. The victims are a couple who own the restaurant and one employee, according to the eyewitnesses.
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The memorial of the murdered opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, gathered about a hundred mourners at the gates of the Russian Embassy in Helsinki on Saturday night.
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Here are the highlights of the Emma Gala where the most prominent Finnish artists were awarded with an Emma on Friday evening at the Barona Arena in Espoo.
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A blindfolded man stands in front of the Kamppi shopping centre in Helsinki. He is asking for hugs from Muslims. Will he receive any?
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Your sim card might be hacked. But only if you use an old cellphone and make your calls through a 2G network.
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Have you seen The Hangover? Luokkakokous by director Taneli Mustonen resembles the 2009 Hollywood flick, but instead of situated in Las Vegas, this one focuses in Naantali, which some, however, call the Las Vegas of Finland.
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The new maternity package contains 54 products from a thermometer to nipple cream.
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Robert Helenius, ‘The Nordic Nightmare’, has been under the radar, improving himself. After two years, he is faster, stronger and more focused than ever.
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Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, the secretary of foreign affairs of Mexico, visited Finland for the first time on Friday to discuss the investment business and, of course, the international politics and its problems: counterterrorism, the disarmament of nuclear weapons and the value of a strong environment treaty.
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“I would like to send my warmest wishes to the people of China from the snowy Finland, the home of the Santa Claus. I wish you happy Chinese New Year!” Niinistö says in his greetings.
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Swede’s are trying a six-hour workday. In a hospital in Norrland, the employees will work six hours instead of eight and get paid fully. This has raised discussion in Finland, too. Could the model work here?
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Chinese New Year was celebrated at the Lasipalatsi Square in Kamppi starting from 16:00 on Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds of people gathered at the square to enjoy the performances, the food and the New Year countdown at 18:00 when the year turned from the year of Horse to the year of the Goat/Sheep.
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Carl Haglund, the minister of defence and his Swedish counterpart, Peter Hultqvist, received a report on Tuesday evening, which explains how the neighbouring countries will strengthen their military cooperation in the future.
Here are the highlights of the report conducted together by the militaries and the defence ministries of Finland and Sweden.
The number of foreigners that have joined Sunni militant organisations in the Syria, Iraq conflict continues to rise, according to an insight report published by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence ICSR.
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In total, during the upcoming three weeks, as the date for the vacation varies regionally, the vacation is celebrated by about 800,000 pupils. Somewhat 114,000 citizens involved in working life held their winter vacation in February last year and the number is expected to remain close to the same.
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The threat of terrorism is on the rise and the complexity of threats and risks is growing, and the relationship between Russia and the West is now characterised by mistrust and the prospects for cooperation have deteriorated.
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While waiting for the invitational premiere of Fifty Shades of Grey to start, the guests, consisting of celebrities and Grey-fans, sipped champagne and mingled and snacked on popcorn. I asked about some of the expectations of the celebs before the bell rang.
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Jim Yong King, the president of World Bank, and the fighter against inequality, visited Finland on Wednesday.
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Dakota’s role as Anastasia is the best part of the film. Her screen presence and how she acts the role of the innocence and determination and the naivety, however just subtle enough, to keep the viewer on toes.
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Finland is the only country in the European Union where homelessness continues to decrease, a study, released on Tuesday, reveals.
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Last year, dairies received just over 2.288 million litres of milk, according to the statistics released by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). The production volume was the highest in nine years, and the amount of produced organic milk kept rising, with 47 million litres produced.
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President Sauli Niinistö was quoted wrong by the Russian news agency, Interfax, on Saturday.
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After watching this video, created for an installation at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year, where foreigners try to pronounce Finnish compound words, saying correctly even a few phrases makes you feel like a superhero.
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UISGE whisky festival brings together the whisky enthusiasts and about 200 bottles of unique flavours from around the world.
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