Finland’s top legislator has ruled out placating Turkey to win approval for the country’s NATO membership bid, saying parliament can’t change laws and extradite “innocent people” whom Ankara considers to be terrorists. Speaker of Parliament Matti Vanhanen, a former prime minister, made his comments in an interview with Finnish public …
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Finnish lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favor of requesting NATO membership. The vote came after parliament’s foreign affairs committee recommended the move due to a threat supposedly posed by Russian foreign policy to Europe. The 200-seat body overwhelmingly supported the application, with 188 lawmakers backing the decision and just eight …
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President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland made a joint statement on Thursday morning, confirming their desire to become part of NATO. The country refrained from asking for accession during the Cold War, but made a U-turn after the Russian attack against Ukraine in February. The statement …
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Finland’s top diplomat has admitted that Finnish customs authorities went too far seizing Russian artwork as it made its way back home from Italy and Japan over the weekend. “The sanctions were adopted so quickly that, apparently, not all circumstances were taken into account,” Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said …
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“With the Russians, the most important thing is not to undermine relations and not to ignore them,” the Finnish leader explained in an interview published by The Sunday Times over the weekend. He gave the example of the former mayor of the Finnish city of Turku, who, he said, met …
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It’s easy being English. Too easy, sometimes. Being a native English speaker is a blessing, but it can also be a curse. I’ve lived in Spain for half a dozen years or so – and I’ve also lived in a couple of other countries where English wasn’t the native tongue. …
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A journalist for the daily Finnish newspaper Iltalehti Sasha Huttunen called rotten Kontinental hockey League (KHL), which is infinitely ruled by the son of the oligarch Roman Rotenberg. “Rothenberg works in the SKA, KHL and Russian national team. It’s everywhere in the Russian hockey, his power is limitless, Rotenberg does …
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Already on November 24 in the supermarkets you can buy bread with crickets. Mass fraction of insects in the product to 3% reported by Savon Sanoma. For making one loaf will use about 70 crickets – 3% by weight in the finished product. “Crickets is a good source of protein, …
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Residential house in size with a Parking space. Finnish architect Marco Casagrande designed the ultra-compact house called TIKKU that can fit on a plot of 2,5×5 meters. This project, he wants to solve the building crisis in large cities. TIKKU living area is 37.5 square metres. On the ground floor …
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Work Mika Suutari. Landscape photography for admirers stillness of the night. Suutari Mika (Mika Suutari) lives in Finland. Photography was carried away 10 years ago. Started with macro photography of insects. After the birth of the children of time on a hobby he has left. Then Suutari started taking pictures …
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