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Mushers from Russia’s Arctic Brigade practice dog sledding along Finnish border

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 11:14
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With weapons on the shoulders, infantry solders learn how to traverse Arctic borderlands with dogs. The first dogs arrived in

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Sámi rapper Ailu Valle wins Finnish state art prize

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 15:40
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An indigenous hip-hop musician and a disability rights activist are among the winners of this year’s state arts prizes. Hip-hop

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Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Norway SOCIETY Society 

UN sustainable development goals translated into North Saami

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 15:01
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The United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) have now been translated into the North Saami language, the most widely spoken

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Countries Cyber Cyber-1 Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Geopolitics POLITICS USA 

Finnish and US Presidents agree on Arctic security policies

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 17:21 — Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 12:02
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Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Arctic issues, including security and the environment, during their meeting

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Featured Featured • Zone 1 Finland General Highlights POLITICS Politics 

Education, wage subsidies key in Finland’s budget for 2020

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 15:53
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Finland is looking to invest in wage subsidies and education in the 2020 budget agreed by government parties this week,

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Featured Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Highlights SOCIETY Society 

Fewer babies baptised in Finland, but Christianity ‘still strong’ in the north, statistics show

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 11:16 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 11:18
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There has been a sharp decline in the number of babies baptised in Finland. According to statistics from the Population

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Featured Featured • Zone 2 Finland General Highlights POLITICS Politics 

Women now lead most Finnish political parties

Yle News
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 10:07 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 16:20
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When Finland’s Centre Party elected Katri Kulmuni as its new leader last weekend, Finnish political history turned a new page:

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Countries Environment ENVIRONMENT Finland General Highlights 

Historic temperature peaks in dry, cool July for Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 14:26 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 10:05
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July 2019 will be remembered for breaking records for both freezing nights and blistering days at Finland’s meteorological measuring stations.

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Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Highlights Sweden 

Sweden’s small wind farms reducing energy production

Tatiana Kireeva, Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 11:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 10:54
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Small Swedish wind farms have been reducing the amount of energy they are producing because to do more would be

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Hospital wards across Finland clogged with “unnecessary patients”

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 16:18 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 10:06
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Senior physicians at five major central hospitals in Finland have issued a “wake-up call” on the issue of congestion in

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Environment ENVIRONMENT Finland General Highlights 

Satellite photos show contaminated algae blooming in southern coast of Finland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 15:54 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 15:59
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The heat that hit Finland in late July may draw crowds to beaches, but certain bacteria that live in the

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A eurasian elk in a forest in Sweden. (iStock)
Environment ENVIRONMENT Featured Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Highlights 

Thirsty elks will seek water during heatwave in Finland, motorists warned

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 10:14
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The police department of Southwestern Finland warns people driving in the region of wandering elk that may cross roads unexpectedly

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Countries Finland General Highlights POLITICS Politics 

Aircraft that breached Finnish airspace was from Russian state, officials confirm

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 10:56 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 09:39
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Finland’s Border Guard has confirmed that the aircraft which breached Finnish airspace last week was owned by the Russian state.

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Countries CULTURE Culture Cyber Cyber-5 General Norway 

Walt Disney Animation Studios to release Saami-language version of “Frozen 2”

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 09:37 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 16:40
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The sequel to the Walt Disney mega-hit film Frozen will also be available in the Saami language,  Walt Disney Animation

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Environment ENVIRONMENT Finland General Highlights 

Finnish Border Guard’s camera catches bear killing elk near Russia

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 16:00
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Rare images of a brown bear attacking and killing an elk was captured by a camera in northeast Finland operated

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