Despite this, the majority of Finnish poetry remained only in the oral tradition.

Despite Finnish resistance, a peace treaty was signed in March 1940, wherein Finland ceded some key territory to the Soviet Union, including the Karelian Isthmus, containing Finland's second-largest city, Viipuri, and the critical defensive structure of the Mannerheim Line.

Despite offers to return to Finnish national politics, she declined to become a candidate in the Finnish Parliament elections in 2007.

Despite its position as one of the minor political parties in the Finnish parliament it has frequently been one of the partners forming the governing coalition cabinets.

Despite belonging to the Liberal International, the Centre Party does not play quite the same role in Finnish politics as do Liberal parties in other countries because it evolved from agrarian roots.

Despite their lyrics written in Finnish these bands have also attained international recognizion, even cult-following.

Despite his switch of allegiance, Tokoi remained barred from a return to Finland due to his prominent involvement as a Red in the Finnish Civil War, however.

Despite the loss of Viipuri on 20 June 1944, Oesch was able to pull the Finnish forces together.

Despite outnumbering Finnish troops by over 2. 5: 1, the war proved embarrassingly difficult for the Red Army, which was ill-equipped for the winter weather and lacking competent commanders since the purge of the Soviet high command.

Despite winning Finnish championship silver in 1971 and gold in 1973, Jokerit didn't manage to be financially profitable during Mäkinen's period in charge.

Despite this, the region is linguistically heterogeneous, encompassing both exclusively Finnish and Swedish-speaking municipalities in addition to bilingual ones.

Despite losing that cup final 1 – 0, the team still qualified for the following season's UEFA Cup in which Samuel scored against Finnish team, MyPa, at Tannadice in the second leg of the qualifying round tie.

Despite the small number of native Finnish speakers, virtually non-existent number of non-native Finnish speakers and the high number of the native speakers who are also fluent in English, the Finnish Wikipedia is currently the 17th largest Wikipedia with over 250, 000 articles.

The Swedish language ( 6 % of the people ) is a valid language everywhere in Finland, whereas the Finnish language ( 92 % of the people ) is most widely used, but the latter is not legally valid everywhere .< ref name = CIAFinland > Despite the large difference in the numbers of users, Swedish is not officially classified as a minority language but equal to Finnish.

Despite having minimal impact in Finnish television culture MoonTV sustained a steady fan-base and helped launch the careers of several of their employees and associates such as Jarno Sarkula of the band Alamaailman Vasarat, Miika Huttunen and Thomas Puha, the main editors of the game magazine Pelaaja and the Finnish equivalent of Jackass, the Extreme Duudsonit.

Despite the Finnish government's attempts to recruit from a wide range of political opinions, some 20 % of the men had extreme right-wing affiliations.

Despite depicting a unilingually English culture, the comic was unilingually Finnish.

Despite spending considerable money on players such as Lee Miller, Dundee United were eliminated in the qualifying stage of the UEFA Cup by Finnish team MyPa.

Despite conservative " White " Finnish support for Nazi Germany during World War II, Canadian immigration policy in the 1940s favoured admitting " White Finns " to Canada.

Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

Despite the significant resources mobilized and self-sacrifice of the participants, a series of missteps by several successive unwilling or incompetent chief commanders appointed by the Polish government ultimately led to the defeat of the insurgents by the Russian army.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

“ There is no prospect of ever winning Russian cooperation .” Despite its reservations, the 80th Congress implemented Truman ’ s requests, further escalating the Cold War with the USSR.

Despite the marginalised Left Opposition's demand for the restoration of Soviet democracy, Stalin developed a bureaucratic, authoritarian government, that was condemned by democratic socialists, anarchists and Trotskyists for undermining the initial socialist ideals of the Bolshevik Russian Revolution.

Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Nicholas I to ask for peace.

Despite the close relations between Swedish and Russian aristocracy ( see also Rus '), there is no direct evidence of Orthodox influence, possibly because of the language barrier.

Despite what he considered its technical deficiencies, Ravel was a strong advocate of Russian music and praised its spontaneity, orchestral color, and exoticism.

Despite this acceptance, the Russian Federation lacked the military and political power of the former Soviet Union.

Despite the absence of a continuous navigable waterway, the Angara and its tributary the Ilim were of considerable importance for Russian colonization of Siberia since ca.

Despite his initial scepticism the deal seems to have the support of Russian security-chief Colonel Stok and Hallam in the British government's Home Office.

Despite the fact that many, like Stalin, saw Trotsky's role in the October 1917 Russian revolution as central, Trotsky says that without Lenin and the Bolshevik party the October revolution of 1917 would not have taken place.

Despite early success and the capture of the towns of Rastenburg and Gumbinnen, In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1915, the Russians were decisively defeated and forced to retreat, followed by the German Army advancing into Russian territory.

Despite being sterile, Bocking 14 Russian Comfrey will steadily increase in size.

Despite these efforts essential differences between Russian accounting standards and IFRS remain.

Despite using the Tetris name, this game has no resemblance to its Russian namesake.

Despite fervent support for the Greek cause in Russian nationalist circles, Alexander proved unwilling to defy Metternich and Castlereagh and offer the Greeks more than ( limited ) diplomatic support.

Despite initial success, the democratic state was crushed by Russian troops descended to attack Hungary and restore the rule of the Habsburg dynasty.

Despite Jacob Rothkowitz's modest income, the family was highly educated, and able to speak Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew.

Despite Russian efforts at proselytizing in Sarai, the Mongols clung to their traditional animist or shamanist beliefs until Uzbeg Khan ( 1312 – 41 ) adopted Islam as a state religion.

Despite Marshal Davout's suggestion of a maneuver to outflank the weak Russian left, the Emperor instead ordered Davout's First Corps to move directly forward into the teeth of the defense, while the flanking maneuver was left to the weak Fifth Corps of Prince Poniatowski.

Despite the disarray of the Russian centre, Napoléon declined to follow up Murat's charge by advancing with the Guard.

Despite this echo of the Russian Civil War, Red Wedge was not a communist organisation ; neither was it officially part of the Labour Party, but it did initially have office space at Labour's headquarters.

Despite this the dismissal of Constantine was not unanimously supported by the Entente powers ; while France and Britain did nothing to stop Jonnart's actions, the Russian Provisional Government officially protested to Paris.

Despite a series of colourful exploits, his agents obtained little Russian intelligence of value.