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China this week denied involvement in the damaging of an underwater gas pipeline linking Finland with Estonia and the European Union, an incident that Finnish investigators have labeled as sabotage, Al Jazeera reported. Earlier this month, Finnish authorities discovered that the Balticconector gas pipeline was leaking...

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The World Briefly

August 25, 2023

Cunning and Condemned

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Finland began culling 120,000 foxes and mink this week, as Europe’s largest fox fur producer is attempting to prevent an outbreak of avian flu on its farms, Euronews reported. Health officials said Wednesday the cull has already been carried out on 10 farms and an order...

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June 21, 2023

Changing of the Guard

Finland

Finnish lawmakers approved National Coalition Party (NCP) leader Petteri Orpo as the country’s new prime minister on Tuesday, ushering in a right-wing government following elections that saw the ousting of Prime Minister Sanna Marin, Reuters reported. Orpo’s approval came after the NCP and three other right-wing...

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April 05, 2023

Welcome to the Club

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Finland became NATO’s 31st member Tuesday, a historic move that comes amid the ongoing war in Ukraine that revitalized the relevance of the defense alliance, the Washington Post reported. Finnish membership will now double NATO’s land border with Russia, adding more than 800 miles and boosting...

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March 31, 2023

Joyful Warriors

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For the fifth time in a row, Finns are the happiest people in the world. According to the United Nations’ World Happiness Report, citizens of Finland demonstrate high levels of “eudaimonia,” a term the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle coined to describe “overall life satisfaction,” reflecting a...

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March 01, 2023

The Lapland Conundrum

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Contentious legislation that would reform Finland’s law governing rights for its Indigenous Sámi people failed to get past the final committee stage in parliament, shattering the hopes of Sámi activists who had seen the bill as a major step toward self-determination, Euronews reported. The Sámi Parliament...

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Ukraine Briefly

August 05, 2022

Ukraine, Briefly

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A new report from Amnesty International said the Ukrainian military has occasionally put people at risk of Russian strikes by establishing bases in schools, homes and other sites in inhabited regions, the Associated Press wrote. A Russian court found WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty...

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June 03, 2022

Closing the Circle

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If Finland joins NATO, the Western Alliance will have opened a potential 800-mile-long front in a war against Russia. What’s more, as the Washington Post illustrated, this new front would come very close to Russia's nuclear submarine and Arctic navy bases on the Kola Peninsula. If...

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April 13, 2022

Sovereignty Un-Stifled

Finland

Finlandization has been proposed as a final status for Ukraine after Russia concludes its ongoing brutal invasion. But the Finns might counsel against it. The Finns are themselves considering joining NATO rather than continuing to accept what the New York Times described as the “stifled sovereignty”...

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