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I got an Estonian passport stamp, courtesy of a short trip across the water from Finland on a very fast catamaran.
She added that as a developing country, Namibia has a lot to learn concerning nursing services in first world countries like Finland.
From 1889 to 1917 he served in the Russian army, as Finland was then a grand duchy within the Russian empire.
Russia finally conquered Finland during the Napoleonic wars of 1808-1809, annexing it as an autonomous grand duchy.
Denmark is geographically the southernmost of the Nordic nations, which also include Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
While water from the taps in Finland runs clear and cold, we discovered that lungfuls of Lapp air are an even better tonic.
Presently ilmenite is being won from titaniferous iron ore deposits in New York, Canada, Finland, and Norway.
The United States leads the GCI, swapping positions with Finland, last year's number one and now ranked number two.
Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany planned to fly flags at half mast in respect for the dead and missing.
In the north, like neighbouring Finland, Sweden has a Lapp region, known for its reindeer meat.
Brue's search for the perfect bath takes her from Turkey, land of the hammam, to Greece, Russia, Finland and even Japan.
The statistics describe the use of hard coal in generation of electricity and heat in Finland.
Raivio, a Lapp, had fought the Russians in Finland and escaped to America as a ship's crew member.
Lenin fled, hiding in a haymaker's hut before crossing the border into Finland.
St Petersburg is located on the delta of the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland.
They studied 121 women with stress incontinence who were referred to six gynecology clinics in Finland.
Scandinavia remains the spiritual home of orienteering, and most of the world's best competitors still come from Sweden, Norway and Finland.
In Finland, sea levels reached record highs, cutting off several coastal roads, but no major damage was reported.
By the time he hits Finland, he's barely stopping long enough to offload packages and parcels.
Perhaps their recent move to Barcelona from their home country of Finland has had an impact on their overall approach.
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Is Finland hotching with these enteroviruses, are there more of these enteroviruses here than in Sweden or Russia, or Australia?
In Finland the land-owning and commercial classes were Swedish in language and origin.
Finland is about 98 percent Lutheran but only about 2 percent churchgoing, so Lutheran notions of sin and grace are long forgotten by most Finns.
In the areas of eastern Finland active in swiddening, most forests suitable for slash-and-burn cultivation were privately owned.
The Globalization Commission was co-chaired by the Tanzanian president along with the president of Finland.
A higher proportion of the population die from the cold in winter in Britain than in icy Finland or Russia.
The report also implicated the gene in diabetes in an isolated population of people from Finland.
As an inborn metabolic error, it is extremely rare, with most of the few dozen cases occurring in Finland.
The antivirus research team had a nice photo opportunity last week when we had our US lab visiting us here in Finland.
Accused of complicity in the coup attempt of July 1917, he even had to go into hiding in Finland.
Pikeperch aquaculture in Finland mainly involves semi-intensive pond culture of one-summer-old juveniles for stocking purposes.
In 1998 Jenkins spent a month there training with some of the best Finns and he has already planned four training camps to Finland this year.
On a recent trip to Finland, Deacon was impressed with the progress the Finns have made in reducing teenage pregnancies.
I followed the Premiership matches on satellite television in Finland so I have a good idea of what to expect.
These pages provide information for employers hiring foreigners and foreigners coming to work in Finland or already living in Finland.
As two thirds of Finland is covered by forests, it is hardly surprising that timber is the national building material.
At the time the Russians said he had been shot by a border guard while crossing the frontier with Finland.
It took over five years for Austria, Sweden, and Finland to progress from application to full membership.
The challenge will see the group run and trek across 150km of northern Finland, pulling all their kit in a traditional pulka.
In Finland the reason given for the creation of a detention centre has been that immigrants should not be placed in prisons.
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In northern continental Europe, Eurasian cranes are fairly widespread during summer months in countries such as Sweden, Finland, and Poland.
Recently a homeowner in Finland was engaged in a ritual spring cleaning, which included emptying the bookshelves and dusting each volume.
Money simply had not been spent in Finland prior to 1939 for many large-scale military training exercises.
The logs are cut to specification in Finland and then dowelled together on site to form an amazing design feature both internally and externally.
Yet the remoteness of Finland from Putinist Russia is neither geographic nor strategic.
Some groups of Sami practice reindeer nomadism and range across northern Sweden and Finland.
In the absence of other sources of building stone, glacial erratics have been extensively used in Finland and northern Poland.
It wasn't until the 1990s that there was a more tolerant attitude towards folk art in Finland.
The rumor of the weekend, of course, was that the company was hanging out in Finland kicking the tires on a huge potential merger.
This new CD is among the last and is the result of recordings made in Finland in 1998 with six wind harps.
Our readers seem to like it chilly, but this year Adriatic sunshine has won through, pipping perennial favourites Iceland, Finland and Norway.
Kaisaniemi Garden has some of the largest sycamores, Manchurian maples, American limes, cork trees, and katsuras in Finland.
Hats off to all the players currently in Finland playing their guts out for Canada.
This could have been the basis of an interesting discussion of how marginal or central such songs were to Finland.
When, in 1809, Finland became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown.
Upon his arrival in Finland, Svinhufvud met him at the dock with a military salute, dressed in the uniform of a sergeant-major.
Today, the Aland Islands are an autonomous and unilingually Swedish province of Finland.
In December 1992, aged 15, she won a silver medal at a dance competition in Finland.
Beijing initiated an antidumping investigation last month into imports of art paper from Japan, Finland, South Korea and the United States.
The study involved twins in Finland and focused on gray matter in the frontal lobes and Wernicke's area.
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Teachers from Italy and Finland have been in town all week to see Grange Junior School in action.
Finland must be the only country on earth where natural corngold and silky white line up to dye their hair jet black.
We studied allozyme variation in metapopulations of two species of water fleas in the skerry archipelago of southern Finland.
There are more than 200 ski jumps in Finland, and at least one can be found in most towns and villages.
But the Swede has seen the side he has fashioned win their first five matches, including vital qualifiers against Finland, Albania and Greece.
In Finland, for example, the government provides smart cards to authenticate the identity of someone transacting business over the Internet.
Each winter, a larger proportion of people in Britain die because of unseasonable cold weather than in either Finland or Russia.
In southern Finland the mating season begins soon after snowmelt, typically toward the end of April.
After the gig I went to Tampere in Finland for 3 days to spend some time with my friends snowkiting.
However, in Finland reindeer are very common and Finnish Lapland is abundant in food for reindeer.
Government policy has tried to stop or at least restrict slash-and-burn cultivation, both in Finland earlier and in the tropics today.
These include cluster analytic investigations carried out in Florida, The Netherlands, and Finland.
Its roots are in the Ural-Altaic languages of Finland, Hungary, and Turkey.
The ruling is expected to boost used car imports to Finland, especially from Germany.
He was rearrested when he sneaked back into Finland for his father's funeral.
In Finland, you can now buy soft drinks from vending machines via cellular phones.
The Finnish Bryological Society was founded in 1987 to promote bryological research and support the cooperation of the bryologists in Finland.
For us, speedway may be the sport of hard nuts, but for the ice-racers of Sweden, Finland and Russia it is the sport of chickens.
First-year pine seedlings, grown in the greenhouse in southern Finland, will set an easily visible terminal bud toward the end of the summer.
In 1906, Finland became the first nation to give women the vote in national elections.
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By the time Finland became independent, they were a bit suspicious of nobility.
Finland is coming out from the shadows of its Nordic neighbours, Norway and Sweden, and is creating an innovative and hi-tech image for itself.
Compared with other Nordic countries, Finland has very low rates for theft and narcotics offenses but an above average rate for assault.
The five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden together constitute Scandinavia.
Furthermore, the similarities between the Nordic countries make Sweden and Finland reasonable countries to compare to Norway.
Finland had been a grand duchy of the czars for a century, but with the Bolshevik revolution at hand, the Western-oriented Finns rose to throw off their Russian bonds.
The greenshank breeds in Scotland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Cultivation of swidden was still common in two thirds of Finland as late as the 1830s, and was used occasionally in the whole country except for Lapland.
In Finland, anger, passion and emotion suggest you're not in control.
If we take Finland as an example, we find that the Saami, Romanies, and Swedes have to learn Finnish, but Finns do not have to learn any of these languages.
It is said too that sailors, beating up against the wind in the Gulf of Finland, sometimes see a strange sail heave into sight astern and overhaul them hand over hand.
The Aland Islands are a self-governing autonomous part of Finland.
If the law passes in Denmark, only Finland, Hungary and Sweden will remain lawless when it comes to Lassie.
Finland has universal low-cost or free government-provided health care, daycare, and nursery school.
Turkey, Italy, the Czech Republic, Finland, Austria and Greece have all either suffered soccer match-fixing scandals or come under suspicion this year.
When I first came to Finland, I thought the Finns had low expectations.
If both parents wish to resume careers, they will find that the cost of childcare in some Scottish kindergartens is twice as much per week as it is in Finland per month.
Following the armistice of 1944, Finland was obliged to pay reparations of 300 million gold dollars to the USSR, mostly in ships and other metal products.
It is said, too, that sailors, beating up against the wind in the Gulf of Finland, sometimes see a strange sail heave in sight astern and overhaul them hand over hand.
When he left, the boys told me that his mother was a Finnish princess and had to look at the country because her father, the King of Finland, was sick.
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But in Finland, it is as competitive to become a public school teacher as it is to gain acceptance into an Ivy League university.
Eriksson and Nummi determined fairly low ethanol contents for rowan berries, rose-hips, and hawthorn fruits in autumn and winter conditions in Finland.
The choice was an unorthodox one for Finland, which had been shamed for an especially poor record at eurovision in the past.
From Lahti, Finland to Livingston, Texas, a look at the best spots to swim nude.
Costas returned on February 19, the day Finland beat Russia in men's ice hockey.
To send our secret reports back to Finland, we'd use homing pigeons.
My experience of sleeper trains spans the globe from Finland to Australia.
A 23-year-old son of a milliner from the city of Vyborg, he was drafted into the army when the Soviet Union invaded Finland.
Finland granted its own currency, the markka, within the Russian Empire.
The US is below the OECD average, whereas Finland is above, as is The Netherlands.
The Russian Revolution provoked immense fear in conservative Europe, especially as communist movements sprouted in Hungary, Finland, France, and Germany.
Sol is honorary consul for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
More than 200 Brazilian players are currently registered as being foreign-based in countries ranging from Spain and Italy to Finland, El Salvador and China.
There I was describing Duncan as a failure in Finland, and thousands of miles away at Everton he rises like a phoenix from the ashes to score against Manchester United.
In contrast, e-banking became common relatively early in Finland.
During the last century, Finland has reinvented itself as a highly sophisticated, socially urbane culture with the highest aspirations for design and for architecture.
With the use of paid mercenaries from Germany, Finland and Scotland, and a strong fleet, the Swedes were able to conduct raids and escape quickly with their loot.
In the first place, the Lapps speak a Finnic dialect which is classified with the extinct Chude, spoken in the early centuries of the present era in Finland.
Despite the effects of the environment, contemporary folk art is considerably more widespread and visible in Finland than, for example, other Nordic countries.
For Finno-Ugric genetics, which do not necessarily align with Finno-Ugric linguistics, see this related page written by another scholar for Virtual Finland.
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A reminder of just how close Tallinn is to Finland is the large number of Finns you will come across sitting in the sunshine outside the city's many bars.
Following the Finnish Civil War of 1918, the Parliament of Finland passed a law setting up tribunals to try suspected rebels.
Sanoma Media Finland centralizes the telesales and customer service operations of its Consumer Sales and Customer Relationships unit.
Sloyd was a woodworking and tool-using educational system begun in Finland in 1865 and later adopted by schools in the United States.
Denmark had the highest price level, followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Finland.
Multi-colored patterned marble and granite paving materials were imported from Austria, Finland and Greece.
Factors affecting zooplankton community of the Gulf of Finland, with respect to native and introduced predatory cladoceran interactions.
There's also a chance to find out about the aptly named Jumbo Tunneller, which is also engaged in a mammoth task, this time in Finland.
Divitron is headquartered in Turku, Finland, with software development occurring in Tampere, Finland.
It has production facilities in Turku, Finland, Bochum and Ziemetshausen, Germany.
Concretism occupies a solid position in both architecture and art in Finland.
True Finns campaign to abolish compulsory Swedish and make Finland unilingually Finnish.
These zones also control the location of minor bodies of rapakivi in southern Finland and an ophitic gabbro body in the Tallinn zone.
Citec is headquartered in Vaasa, Finland, and has offices in Finland, India, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, Russia and Singapore.
This past May, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu, Finland.
Some of the rather unique merchants in Finland include a dentist office, a veggieburger restaurant chain, and a funeral service.
According to the Helsinki Deaconess Institute, Roma from eastern Europe are now bringing their whole families to beg in Finland.
Cowboy is a group of developers from Finland that have been around for many years and have done extensive work in video games and the demo scene.
Academics dissect Tom of Finland, Los Penitentes and ladies in the Marvel Universe.
At Pakri they blow along the Gulf of Finland, at Ruhnu from the Gulf of Riga and at Sorve from the Baltic Proper.
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The results are mainly analysed for the Gulf of Finland, but for comparison purposes also for the Gulf of Riga.
Finlandia cheeses, which are imported from Finland, include Swiss, Muenster, Havarti, Gouda, Viola, Lappi and Heavenly Light Swiss.
In Sweden, Finland, Russia, and South Africa, Sindbis virus is an etiologic agent for outbreaks of rash and long-lasting polyarthritis.
As mentioned earlier, Jarnefelt found ephippial Alonella excisa females in Lake Tuusulanjarvi in southern Finland in early June.
Before coming to Lebanon, the Estonians were trained in Finland by the Finnish contingent.
One example is the rock paintings of Astuvansalmi in the Saimaa area of Finland.
It is the most popular sport in Canada, Finland, Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
The bridge over the Anarjohka in Karigasniemi, on the border of Finland with Norway.
The Northern Baltic Sea lies between the Stockholm area, southwestern Finland and Estonia.
The Baltic Sea somewhat resembles a riverbed, with two tributaries, the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia.
The present contracting parties are Denmark, Estonia, the European Community, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.
Finland is officially bilingual, with Finnish and Swedish having mostly the same status at national level.
In the east, Finland, was a fully incorporated part of Sweden since medieval times until the Napoleonic wars, when it was ceded to Russia.
The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year.
The Soviets showed some interest, but asked for concessions from Finland, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Japan that Germany considered unacceptable.
On 30 November, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, for which it was expelled from the League of Nations.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were incorporated into the USSR, together with portions of Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.
Of the nations that comprised former Russian Empire, only Finland would remain independent throughout the Cold War.
Previously associated members were Austria, Norway and Finland, all of which later joined ESA as full members.
Austria, Finland and Ireland chose not to participate, because of lack of interest or concerns about the expense of the project.
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In the 16th century, Lutheranism spread from Germany into Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states, and Iceland.
In 1869, Finland was the first Nordic country to disestablish its Evangelical Lutheran church by introducing the Church Act.
Denmark, Sweden and Finland then moved to put in place tuition fees for foreign students.
In some municipalities of Western Finland it is allowed to use fireworks without a fire station's permission on the last weekend of August.
Finland has the highest number of registered book borrowers per capita in the world.
The most individual medals were won by Veikko Huhtanen of Finland who took three golds, a silver and a bronze in men's gymnastics.
The Soviet Union became a member on 18 September 1934, and was expelled on 14 December 1939 for invading Finland.
The final significant act of the League was to expel the Soviet Union in December 1939 after it invaded Finland.
In the North, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia were assigned to the Soviet sphere.
During the next 12 years Japan, Finland, Australia, and New Zealand also joined the organisation.
In Finland, one case involved pirates who had been captured and whose boat was sunk.
As the pirates attacked a vessel of Singapore, not Finland, and are not themselves EU or Finnish citizens, they were not prosecuted.
The treaty ceded vast territories, including Finland, the Baltic provinces, parts of Poland and Ukraine to the Central Powers.
Russia became the Soviet Union and lost Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, which became independent countries.
The Soviet forces continued to attack, advancing into Finland in the Winter War, and German forces were involved in action at sea.
The original members were Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.
Austria, Sweden, and Finland joined the EU in 1995 and thus ceased to be EFTA members.
Their example was followed more consistently by the other realms as further war was declared against Italy, Romania, Hungary, Finland, and Japan.
The Mongolian variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America.
Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal are federacies, meaning some regions have autonomy but most do not.
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Naval attacks on other ports, such as the ones in the island of Hogland in the Gulf of Finland, proved more successful.
According to a Eurobarometer poll, satisfaction with rail of UK respondents is the second highest in the EU, behind Finland.
In 1939, political antagonism stymied the work of the Church and Deaconess Anna Eklund was coerced to return to her native Finland.
On 24 September, the Soviet Union attacked the Baltic countries and later, Finland.
The Nordic countries are generally taken to include Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
Finland shares many cultural similarities with both the Baltic nations and the Scandinavian nations.
The Saami of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia have their own unique culture, with ties to the neighboring cultures.
There are countries, such as Switzerland, Finland and Austria, on whose passports such messages are absent.
Airports in EU countries such as Finland, Ireland or the United Kingdom, also have a blue channel.
Also, a security barrier is on the border of Russia with Norway, Finland, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.
Finland is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia, which also includes Scandinavia.
The arrival of the Corded Ware culture in southern coastal Finland between 3000 and 2500 BCE may have coincided with the start of agriculture.
In 1809 Finland was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.
Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Finland declared itself independent.
Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and established an official policy of neutrality.
After World War II, the Soviet Union demanded war reparations from Finland not only in money but also in material such as ships and machinery.
Also many smaller ferries operate on domestic routes in Finland, Sweden and Estonia.
Some EU member states decided to complete the transition as early as 2006 for Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and 2007 for Finland.
One EPR is in Olkiluoto, Finland, as part of the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant.
It remains harvested on an industrial scale for this purpose in countries such as Ireland and Finland.
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The climate, geography, and environment of Finland favours bog and peat bog formation.
Greenpeace views the construction of Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland as an example of the problems on building new nuclear power.
Ireland has a similar MP to Citizen ratio to Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden.
The Swedish colonisation of the coastal areas of Finland started at the same time in 12th and 13th century.
The largest trade flows are with Germany, the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Finland.
Copenhagen Airport also is the largest international airport in Scandinavia and Finland.
This latter term is also used for bodies of water off the coast of Finland where Finland Swedish is spoken.
In the Finnish language, a word vuono is used although there is only one fjord in Finland.
Most of northern and central Sweden, however, belongs to the Svecofennian province, together with the southwestern part of Finland.
Twitching is highly developed in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Finland and Sweden.
Clones seem to be absent in the southern Baltic Sea, less common in Estonia but very common in Gulf of Finland and in the Bothnian Sea.
The Finland Swedish minority is concentrated in the coastal areas and archipelagos of southern and western Finland.
Outside Sweden and Finland, there are about 40,000 active learners enrolled in Swedish language courses.
It has published Finlandssvensk ordbok, a dictionary about the differences between Swedish in Finland and Sweden.
The percentage of Swedish speakers in Finland has steadily decreased since then.
Swedish is an official language also in the rest of Finland, though, with the same official status as Finnish.
Soviet partisans in Finland were known to have attacked villages and indiscriminately targeted the populace, killing entire families.
The largest amount of legalized brown bear hunting occurs in Canada, Finland, Russia, Slovakia and Alaska.
The species was decimated in 20th century Finland, despite regular dispersals from Russia.
The birch is New Hampshire's state tree and the national tree of Finland and Russia.
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However, trees showing some Siberian spruce characters extend as far west as much of northern Finland, with a few records in northeast Norway.
Four years later, at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1500 metres runner Josy Barthel of Luxembourg won Puma's first Olympic gold in Helsinki, Finland.
These butterflies live mostly in Europe, especially Finland, and across temperate Asia.
Large populations of wild reindeer are still found in Norway, Finland, Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada.
In Finland, there are about 6,000 reindeer herders, most of whom keep small herds of less than 50 reindeer to raise additional income.
Sweden also supported Finland in the Winter War and the Continuation War with volunteers and materiel.
Of those, 36 cases involved a determination of the rights of individual Sami in Finland and Sweden.
In Finland, reindeer husbandry is not exclusive and is practiced to a limited degree also by ethnic Finns.
Since 1993, Norway, Sweden and Finland have recognized February 6 as Sami National Day.
Finland was governed as a part of Sweden, while Estonia was under a Baltic German knightly brotherhood.
The majority of people living in the Republic of Finland consider Finnish to be their first language.
It is not known how many of the ethnic Finns living outside Finland speak Finnish as their first language.
The Sweden Finns are either native to Sweden or have emigrated from Finland to Sweden.
The majority moved from Finland to Sweden following the Second World War, taking advantage of the rapidly expanding Swedish economy.
Among the first written sources possibly designating western Finland as the land of Finns are also two rune stones.
When the Uralic languages were first spoken in the area of contemporary Finland is debated.
Therefore, Finnish was already a separate language when arriving in Finland.
In terms of religion, Finland was strongly Christianized and original native traditions of Finnish paganism have gone extinct.
When Finland became independent, it was overwhelmingly Lutheran Protestant.
Irreligion in Finland and criticism of religion found public expression during the 19th and early 20th century.
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The historical provinces of Finland can be seen to approximate some of these divisions.
The regions of Finland, another remnant of a past governing system, can be seen to reflect a further manifestation of a local identity.
In Finland, Karelians traditionally live in the regions of Savonia and Northern and Southern Karelia.
As the Grand Duchy of Finland was formed its inhabitants struggled to properly identify themselves ethnically.
Several thousands of eastern Karelians have migrated to Finland by 1922 from different parts of Eastern Karelia.
Geologically, the Scandinavian Peninsula comprises the mainland of Norway and Sweden as well as the northernmost part of Finland.
For example, Swedish is a mandatory subject in Finnish schools, since Finland by law is a bilingual country.
In 1809, eastern Sweden was conquered by Russia in the Finnish War, after which Finland became the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.
The Soviet Union attacked Finland in 1939 and Finland ceded territory following the Winter War.
In 1941, Finland launched a retaliatory strike in conjunction with the German attack on the Soviet Union.
All of Denmark and most of Finland lie below 200 m, the topography of both is countries being relatively flat.
The landscape of Sweden can be described as a mixture of that of Norway, Finland and Denmark.
The welfare states were largely developed by strong social democrat parties and in Finland with cooperation with the Agrarian League.
Finland and Iceland have been parliamentary republics since their independence.
The President's powers were once so broad that it was said Finland was the only real monarchy in northern Europe.
Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have for example experienced constant and large excess exports in recent years.
Especially Iceland and Sweden, but also Finland and Norway, have a significant production of electricity based on hydro power.
Geothermal energy production is the most important source of energy in Iceland, whilst nuclear power is produced in both Finland and in Sweden.
Most Sami live in Norway followed by Sweden and Finland, while the fewest Sami live in Russia.
Finland shares many cultural similarities with both the other Nordic countries as well as with the Baltic states, especially Estonia.
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In Finland the most famous collection of folk poetry is by far the Kalevala, which is the national epic of the country.
The current borders of Sweden were not settled until 1809 with the loss of Finland to Russia in the Finnish War.
European integration and the accession of Sweden, Finland and Denmark to the EU, without Norway and Iceland, has undermined Nordic integration.
The total population estimate for 1997 is around 60 adults in Sweden, 11 adults in Finland, and 50 in Norway.
Russia annexed the Baltic coast from Sweden and parts of Finland, which would become the site of the new Russian capital, Saint Petersburg.
There are differences in vocabulary and grammar, with the variety used in Finland remaining a little more conservative.
In Finland, a farmer, Paavo Ruotsalainen, began the Finnish Awakening when he took to preaching about repentance and prayer.
However, there have been three exceptional instances when ex post facto criminal laws have been used in Finland.
According to the constitution of Finland sovereign power lies with the people, represented by the parliament.
By principle, the constitutionality of laws in Finland is verified by a simple vote in the parliament.
Eastern Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia in northern Romania were recognized as parts of the Soviet sphere of influence.
His last speech from the backbenches was to attack the government for not doing enough to help Finland.
The autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire was the first nation to allow all women to both vote and run for parliament.
As a result of the changing relations to Finland, the northern borders of Norrland have shifted.
Neuvo had a distinguished career as an academian at The Academy of Finland where he was the national research professor for eight years.
LeRoy looks more like a member of an alternative rock band than a Tom of Finland model.
Juha was born in Helsinki, Finland on June 23, 1947 to Erkki and Rakel Kuusisaari.
The kantele is a traditional plucked string instrument of the dulcimer and zither family native to Finland.
Of the European contingent who could give you a run at fancy odds, Finland boast real pedigree in Jarkko Komula and Marko Kantele.
Ultimately, Karelia was lost to the Soviet Union, and Finland was forced to evacuate and resettle all Karelians, young Eeva's family among them.
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The balance has been agreed in the Shareholders' Agreement between the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden.
Norilsk Nickel s production facilities are located in the Norilsk industrial district and on the Kola Peninsula in Russia and also in Finland.
The Latvian airline Air Baltic is reportedly opening a new route between Kuopio, in eastern Finland, and the Latvian capital of Riga.
During the peak population period in eastern Finland, the ancient Lake Saimaa discharged a significant proportion of its waters into Lake Ladoga.
Once widespread in Finland, the Saim ringed seal is now found only in the Saim fragmented freshwater lake complex.
Neste Marketing and Kemira GrowHow have begun the distribution of SCR products in Finland.
Kyy Games is part of the Arctic Union coalition of board game developers and publishers, bringing quality board games from Finland.
Imports into Finland rose along with exports after the depreciation of the markka.
This region later became known as Finland Proper in distinction from the country name Finland.
By this time Finland was the predominant term for the whole area from the Gulf of Bothnia to the Russian border.
In 1811, Alexander I incorporated Russian Vyborg province into the Grand Duchy of Finland.
After the 1917 February Revolution, the position of Finland as part of the Russian Empire was questioned, mainly by Social Democrats.
Since the head of state was the tsar of Russia, it was not clear who the chief executive of Finland was after the revolution.
Germany's relations with democratic Finland cooled also after the Nazis' rise to power.
Finland was never occupied by Soviet forces and it retained its independence, but at the loss of about 93,000 soldiers.
Finland took part in trade liberalization in the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Officially claiming to be neutral, Finland lay in the grey zone between the Western countries and the Soviet Union.
Despite close relations with the Soviet Union, Finland remained a Western European market economy.
In the 1970s and 80s, Finland built one of the most extensive welfare states in the world.
Finland reacted cautiously to the collapse of the Soviet Union, but swiftly began increasing integration with the West.

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