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Young Blond may join Weatherman and Jyrki Boy The big three Finnish political parties convene for party conferences in June. Most attention will be paid to the next SDP chairperson, thanks to a fresh contender, writes Kyösti Karvonen, Managing Editor of newspaper Kaleva.

Before the summer, Finnish politics traditionally takes a dash before an all but dead season, when it is major news if a politician says somet

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Euro brings Icelandic conquerors to Finland Foreign stock ownership is making itself known in Finland. Its provenance is surprising: Iceland. Eljas Repo tells what’s been happening.

.Iceland’s Landsbanki is a 120-year-old bank that was privatised by the government in 2002. A few years later, the principle of internationalisation was born. The conquest of Europe began in England. In the Nordic countries, th

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Finnish security policy: No Joy, but Finland Joins Nato Force Finland is ready to contribute to Nato Response Force (NRF), but only in a supplementary role. The painful compromise was reached after a long vacillation, just in time before Nato’s Bucharest Summit, writes Kyösti Karvonen, Managing Editor of newspaper Kaleva.

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva announcing the NRF decision in He

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Ethnic Businesses Rub Elbows on Helsinki's Hämeentie Finland’s first immigrant business district is springing up in the Hakaniemi-Kallio area of Helsinki. Although the area has been dotted with foreign-owned shops for over a decade, now competition is becoming fierce.

Dozens of immigrant-owned businesses are concentrated along and around Hämeentie, a main thoroughfare through the Hakaniemi and Kallio distric

Life & Health

Down With Heinäluoma, Up With Tuomioja? The number one job in the Social Democratic Party of Finland is suddenly up for grabs since Eero Heinäluoma, the present chairman, unexpectedly announced his intention to quit. His decision all but clears the way for Erkki Tuomioja, writes Kyösti Karvonen, Managing Editor of the newspaper Kaleva.

To a foreign audience, political developments in Finlan

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Hockey Championships Glued Finns to Screens The men’s World Ice Hockey Championships, which ended on Sunday in Canada with a Russian victory, drew record numbers of Finns to their television -- and computer -- screens.

Although the broadcasts from Halifax and Québec often came at awkward times for Finnish television viewers, well over a million people out of this nation of 5.2 million watched most of

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Two Men Die in Rovaniemi Shooting Incident Two people were killed and one person was wounded in a shooting outside of Hotel Vaakuna in Rovaniemi in the early morning hours on Sunday. The shooter, born in 1983, had just returned home from peacekeeping duty in Kosovo.

Police have confirmed that the perpetrator, who arrived at the Hotel Vaakuna nightclub by car, shot two men as they exited the nightclub. The shooter fired s