🇫🇮 Finland Mentioned

This October, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are turning Nordic Day into Nordic Month: a month of business, ideas, culture and connections designed to bring the Nordic region and Malaysia a little closer together.

Ukrainian military drones have been straying into the airspace of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, creating concerns that the war in Ukraine is spilling over into NATO countries that border Russia and its ally Belarus.

Finland has become the first country with a final storage facility for nuclear waste. Finland recently became the first country in the world to approve a final storage facility for nuclear waste. It is located 400 meters underground on an island in western Finland, at the site of one of the country's two nuclear power plants. The project took around 40 years to complete. Finland is certainly the country making the fastest progress worldwide.

His grandmother was Sea Sámi, from an Indigenous coastal people whose homeland, Sápmi, stretches across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia’s heavily militarised Kola Peninsula. Two hundred years later, this Arctic community is a combination of Sámi, Norwegians, Finns, Ukrainians, Russians, and international seasonal workers.

Operated by Finnish company Iceye, Iceye-X36 is a Finnish-American civilian satellite equipped with Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) to provide satellite images to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Commenting on his phone call this week with the leaders of Norway and Finland, Putin said Russia was prepared for a potential war with Europe, though it did not want one. Putin said Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre had been right to make the call despite criticism from some European capitals that the two were breaking ranks by initiating contact with Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conveyed to Russian President Vladimir Putin through the leaders of Finland and Norway that he is ready to discuss the issue of territories at a personal meeting. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, about this.

Todellisuudessa tämä on Viipuri, pieni kaupunki Pietarin luoteispuolella, jonka ruotsalainen ja suomalainen perintö on jo pitkään houkutellut kävijöitä hakemaan makua elämästä rajan toisella puolella. Mutta muistutukset Ukrainan sodasta eivät ole koskaan kaukana, ja Venäjän ja Nato-maa Suomen väliset jännitteet — Suomen rajan ollessa vain 30 kilometrin päässä — varjostavat elämää tässä muuten viehättävässä kaupungissa. Maaliskuussa Ukraina hyökkäsi Viipuriin ensimmäistä kertaa drooneilla. Hyökkäyksessä kerrottiin vaurioituneen historiallisen, Suomen ajalta peräisin olevan rakennuksen katto sekä liittovaltion turvallisuuspalvelun (FSB) rannikkovartiostolle rakennettava partiojäänmurtaja. Ruotsalaiset ristiretkeläiset perustivat Viipurin vuonna 1293 linnoitukseksi Suomenlahden rannalle, ja Pietari Suuren joukot valtasivat sen vuonna 1710 suuressa Pohjan sodassa. Vuonna 1812 siitä tuli osa Suomen suuriruhtinaskuntaa, Venäjän keisarikunnan autonomista aluetta. Kun Suomi julistautui itsenäiseksi vuonna 1917, Viipuri, suomeksi Viipuri, jäi sen rajojen sisälle ja siitä tuli maan toiseksi suurin kaupunki Helsingin jälkeen. Suomi luovutti Viipurin Neuvostoliitolle vuonna 1940 talvisodan jälkeen; sota oli alkanut Neuvostoliiton hyökkäyksellä edellisenä vuonna. Suomalaisjoukot valtasivat kaupungin takaisin vuonna 1941, kun Suomi taisteli yhdessä natsi-Saksan kanssa Neuvostoliittoa vastaan, mutta Neuvostoliiton joukot valtasivat kaupungin uudelleen vuonna 1944. Viipurin suomalaisväestö evakuoitiin ja joutui jättämään kotinsa lopullisesti.

In Finland, under-35s hold 0.8 percent of household wealth, the lowest share of any country surveyed, while over-55s hold more than 71 percent.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre called false a Financial Times report that Vladimir Putin had recounted Slavic history in a conversation with him and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

Leaving worker management and performance monitoring to algorithms means “these processes become almost invisible,” Li Andersson, head of the delegation, told EUobserver.

Interfax news agency quoted Yuri Ushakov, who said the possible participation of European countries was not discussed during a 90-minute phone call on Tuesday among Russian President Vladimir Putin, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. But Stubb offered a different account, telling a meeting of the Nordic Council in Helsinki that European countries would be involved in November’s Abu Dhabi talks.

France, Spain, Finland, Denmark, Luxembourg and Portugal back the European Commission’s proposal for a one-year delay.

Some officials in Europe have criticized Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb for their decision to reach out to the Russian leader. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre on Wednesday defended his and Finnish President Alexander Stubb's phone call the day before with Russia's Vladimir Putin, saying it was meant to ensure the Kremlin heard the views of European leaders about ending the war against Ukraine. Both Finland and Norway said their leaders were speaking as representatives of their respective countries and did not speak on behalf of Europe as a whole.

Norway's prime minister defended on Wednesday a three-way call with Vladimir Putin and Finland's president, saying it was intended to ensure the Russian leader heard European as well as US views. Tuesday's call between Russia's Putin, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian premier Jonas Gahr Stoere broke a longstanding practice among Western European leaders of shunning direct contact with the Kremlin, and was criticised by allies including Denmark's Mette Frederiksen.

Finland's and Norway's leaders have phoned Vladimir Putin as Europe seeks a seat at the table. Sasha Vakulina reports on the rare call Finland's Alexander Stubb and Norway's Jonas Gahr Støre held with Vladimir Putin and whether it brings peace talks any closer.

Russian President Vladimir Putin devoted most of a phone conversation with the leaders of Finland and Norway on October 27 to telling them about the “history of the Slavs in the Middle Ages.” Sources familiar with the conversation told the Financial Times.

Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, and Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, held what they described as a “frank and substantive” phone call with Vladimir Putin about efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store called Putin from Helsinki on Tuesday to convey messages on future negotiations ahead of the Abu Dhabi meetings, according to a statement from both governments.