Two timely books on how the region responded to the ‘Russia menace’ and Estonia’s transformation into a thriving tech hub ...

a 48-year-old curator at the Museum of Central Finland in the city of Jyväskylä. “The sauna is the foundation of Finnish equality.” It’s also the foundation of Finnish architecture ...

She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt ... Sofia Gubaidulina was born on Oct. 24, 1931, in the Tatar city of Chistopol. Her father, Asgad ...

They call Finland ... Hanko to the Soviet Union as a base. Bloody battles were fought where we picked up artisan gelato. Hanko was recaptured in the early 1940s and the war-torn city was rebuilt.

They are the athletes who came up big at the biggest moments. Like UW hockey star Kirsten Simms, here's a list of the most ...

Why Finland needs to be your next family break - With Finland having just been named the world’s happiest nation yet again, ...

I moved to Finland 40 years ago – here’s what life is like in the ‘world’s happiest country’ - As Finland is once again ...

In Ireland in general people are more connected to each other and there is a more of community than in Finland.” The Aran connection began years ago. Nikinmaa comes from Espoo, a city next to ...

The US raised the issue during talks with Ukrainian delegates in the Saudi city of Jeddah ... and those fears prompted Sweden and Finland to join NATO after Moscow’s full-scale invasion.

But now he was on the run after falling under suspicion as a traitor and the pick-up in the lay-by, close to the border with Finland ... fears among the paranoid Soviet leadership of a surprise ...