Firearms International has introduced another import, this one from Finland.

Rovaniemi ( in Finland ), which lies slightly south of the line, has a population of approximately 58, 000, and is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle.

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

Sales to Finland have stalled, because the manufacturer has not been able to fix a mysterious bug that causes the rocket motors of the missile to fail in cold tests.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

In Finland, no party has had an absolute majority in the parliament since independence, and multi-party coalitions have been the norm.

Peirce has gained a significant international following, marked by university research centers devoted to Peirce studies and pragmatism in Brazil ( CeneP / CIEP ), Finland (

The CWC has been held every two years since 2001, and to date the competition has been held in Japan, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany and Hong Kong.

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

An important element in Estonia's post-independence reorientation has been closer ties with the Nordic countries, especially Finland and Sweden.

* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.

Finland numbers some 5. 4 million and has an average population density of 17 inhabitants per square kilometre.

Legislative power is vested in the Parliament of Finland, and the government has limited rights to amend or extend legislation.

Though Finland has a primarily parliamentary system, the president has some notable powers.

Finland has universal validity of collective labour agreements and often, but not always, the trade unions, employers and the government reach a Comprehensive Income Policy Agreement.

Finland has a parliamentary system, even if the President of Finland is formally responsible for foreign policy.

It has been questioned whether President Tarja Halonen represented only Finland or the entire EU when she met with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Finland has a multi-party system, with three strong parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

Finland has a civil law system, based on Swedish law, with the judiciary exercising limited powers.

Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out ; he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939.

Weil was mistakenly arrested in Finland at the outbreak of the Winter War suspected of spying ; however, accounts of his life having been at danger have been shown to be exaggerated.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

Near the town of Sillamäe, site of a former uranium enrichment plant, about 1, 200 tons of uranium and about 750 tons of thorium had been dumped into a reservoir on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Trade policy is managed by the European Union, where Finland has traditionally been among the free trade supporters, except for agriculture.

In Finland there have been three cities with trams: Helsinki, Turku and Viipuri.

Cooperation with the other Scandinavian countries also is important to Finland, and it has been a member of the Nordic Council since 1955.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Finland has moved steadily towards integration into Western institutions and abandoned its formal policy of neutrality, which has been recast as a policy of military nonalliance coupled with the maintenance of a credible, independent defence.

Similar projects have been undertaken in Finland, which requires all buildings with area over 600 m² to have an NBC shelter, and Norway, which requires all buildings with an area over 1000 m² to have a shelter.

Later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the term has been used in Finland for the post-1968 radicalization in the latter half of the Urho Kekkonen era.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

The Wehrmacht's defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad led Finland to basically revert to its 19th-century traditions, which had been perceived as highly successful until the Russification of Finland ( 1899 – 1905 ).

Following the Diet of Porvoo in 1809, Finland, previously part of the Kingdom of Sweden, had been ruled as a nominally autonomous part of the Russian Empire, known as the Grand Duchy of Finland.

The civil war remains the most traumatic, controversial and emotionally charged event in the history of modern Finland, and there have even been disputes about how to designate it.

The military significance of the Grand Duchy of Finland had been increasing for the Russians from the mid-19th century with the rising tensions and competition among the major European powers.

His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.

system of Finland, with the Baltic Sea at Vyborg ( Viipuri ).

Relations with Russia are cordial and common issues include bureaucracy ( particularly at the Vaalimaa border crossing ), airspace violations, development aid Finland gives to Russia ( especially in environmental problems that affect Finland ), and Finland's energy dependency on Russian gas and electricity.

Finland became a full member of the European Union ( EU ) in January 1995, at the same time acquiring observer status in the EU's defence arm, the Western European Union.

* 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country ( i. e. Finland ) to Russia.

While there are 54 members of the International Floorball Federation ( IFF ), the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland have finished in most of the coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at the World Floorball Championships.

The Czech Republic, Finland, Norway Sweden, and Switzerland remain the only five countries to have ever captured a medal at a World Championship event.

Father Christmas is often said to reside at the North Pole or less commonly, in the mountains of Korvatunturi in Lapland, Finland.

From 60, 000-80, 000 Russian soldiers remained stationed in Finland at the beginning of 1918, but the majority of them were demoralized and unwilling to fight, and were withdrawn from Finland by the end of March.

Although some 60, 000 to 80, 000 Russian soldiers of the former Tsar's army remained stationed in Finland at the start of the Civil War, the Russian contribution to the Red Guards ' cause was to prove negligible.

Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.

At the beginning of the war the governments of White Finland and Red Finland officially opposed acts of terror, but such operational decisions were made at the military level.

In June 1995, Greenpeace took a trunk of a tree from the forests of the proposed national park of Koitajoki in Ilomantsi, Finland and put it on display at exhibitions held in Austria and Germany.

Finland has been continuously inhabited at least since the end of the last ice age, up to date.

According to the recently most widespread presumption, Finno-Ugric ( or Uralic ) languages were first spoken in Finland and the adjacent areas during the ( typical ) Comb Ceramic period, around 4000 BCE at the latest.

Hillforts spread over most of southern Finland at the end of the Iron and early Medieval Age.

It was the Swedish regent, Birger Jarl, who established Swedish rule in Finland through the Second Swedish Crusade, most often dated to 1249, which was aimed at Tavastians who had stopped being Christian again.