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Happy birthday to Enni Rukajärvi , from the village of Rukajärvi in Kuusamo . She's a snowboard slopestyle world champion and Winter X G...

We'll start off with an honorary mention for Regina Halmlich , who retired in 2007 but is a true pioneer of women's boxing. And hey,...

Last week, the Finnish parliament announced sweeping cuts to the armed forces. Over the next two years, five bases will be closed and severa...

There's been a campaign going on in Sweden for a good while to change a law that requires people undergoing a sex change to be sterilize...

Yeah, I'm not blacked out because I'm lazy. But I'm delighted that so many websites, from Wikipedia on down, are protesting the ...

Another year gone by. What did we get up to in 2011? * We did our best to promote Goblin Camp , with a let's play kind of thing and a b...

Just this week, the Helsinki district court has ordered Finnish ISP Elisa to block access to the Pirate Bay . Torrentfreak has the story in ...

Now that the NHL premiere is in Helsinki, hockey fans in North America can once again see Hartwall Areena, the current home of six-time Finn...

According to a large study conducted in Finland and reported in Uusi Suomi , Finns are much more critical of religion than most other nation...

Happy birthday to the second-hottest Miss Finland of all time, second only to the incomparable Lola : Viivi Pumpanen !

I'll let the Ottawa Citizen introduce the subject: Ottawa Citizen: Crimes of imagination Canada has charged an American and is threateni...

Eurostat: Consumer price levels in 2010 In 2010, price levels for consumer goods and services1 differed widely across Member States. Denmark...

The Helsinki Pride parade is this weekend; to be specific, tomorrow at 13:00 local time. The parade starts at the Senate square. If you'...

It's about time we pay tribute to the hottest Miss Finland ever, Lola ! She was crowned Miss Finland in 1996 under her maiden name Lola...

In April, sports site The Bleacher Report ranked Finland's Kiira Korpi number one in their list of "sexiest international athlete...

According to Helsingin Sanomat , the new Finnish ID card project is getting some bad feedback from European anti-racism coalition ENAR . The...

First of all, the Matti Nikki saga continues in Finland. I wrote about it years ago , and here 's a press release from Electronic Fronti...

Here's some pictures I took of the world championship celebrations in Helsinki on Monday. Unlike most pictures on my blog, these ones I ...

First of all, the divine Maria Sharapova won at Rome: But more importantly, there was the hockey world champs in Slovakia. Luckily Mats Sund...

This Sunday, the small and boring country of Finland convenes at its schools and other voting posts to elect a parliament. As I happen to li...