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 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.

* March 15 – March 16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied.

* October 1 – The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates when it adopts universal suffrage.

On 1 November 1905, during the general strike, the famous Red Declaration was proclaimed on the Keskustori, the central square of Tampere, subsequently leading to universal suffrage in Finland and the Tsar of Russia granting larger freedoms to Finns.

In 1906, Finland became the second country in the world, and the first in Europe, to grant universal suffrage to its citizens.

Modernizations typical for the era in Europe were introduced, boosting the status of the Finnish-speaking majority: the special rights of the higher estates of the realm were abolished, a modern parliament based on universal suffrage was introduced 1907 and in 1917 Finland became independent.

Finland has had access to free universal daycare for children age eight months to five years in place since 1990, and a year of " preschool / kindergarten " at age six, since 1996.

The people of Finland feel deeply that they cannot fulfil their national duty and their universal human obligations without a complete sovereignty.

Finland was one of the first regions in the world to implement universal suffrage and eligibility, including for women and for landless people.

In 1907, after a general strike that finished the first Russification period and brought parliamentary democracy with universal suffrage and a unicameral parliament to Finland, the Young Finnish Party took part in the first Finnish parliamentary election as a liberal-minded centre-right party.

Similar models are in use in Finland, namely Comprehensive Income Policy Agreement and universal validity of collective labour agreements.

Similar models are in use in Finland, namely Comprehensive Income Policy Agreement and universal validity of collective labour agreements.

* 1906: Finland is the first European country to introduce universal suffrage in national elections

* 1917: Finland extends universal suffrage to local elections

Already in 1906 full modern democratic rights, universal suffrage for all citizens was implemented constitutionally in Finland as well as a proportional representation, open list system.

Canadians of Finnish ancestry often formed a large percentage of left-wing organizations during the early 1900s, as Finland had, by 1906 as a part of the Russian empire, already become one of the first nations to adopt universal suffrage.

Finland practices universal conscription of men ( c. 80 % of each age cohort ), and maintains only a cadre of paid personnel for training and maintaining military readiness.

* Pusa hispida botnica ( validity questionable ): The Baltic Sea, especially in the Bothnian Bay where there is a large population, but there are also endangered populations in the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga and the Archipelago Sea.

National trade mark laws in some countries ( such as Finland, Germany, Hungary and Switzerland ) provide for the filing of the regulations as an additional requirement for registration of the collective trade mark.

Töölö () is the collective name for the neighbourhoods Etu-Töölö () and Taka-Töölö () in Helsinki, Finland.

The last negotiations with Finland had been initiated by the Soviet side as part of its collective security policy in April 1938, and aimed to reach an understanding and to secure a favorable Finnish position in case of a German attack on the Soviet Union through Finnish territory, but this had proven futile due to the Finnish reluctance to break neutrality, and negotiations ended in April 1939, shortly before Litvinov's dismissal.

As a consequence of the unbalanced social development and the labour movement's continuous position in the political opposition, the Social Democratic Party had gained an absolute majority in the Parliament of Finland, in the general elections of 1916.

Many from Finland used this opportunity to secure better paying jobs in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s, dominating Sweden's first wave of post-war labour immigrants.

In 2008, labour union density was 67. 5 % in Finland, 67. 6 % in Denmark, and 68. 3 % in Sweden.

In addition, they must have a pre-arranged permanent residence in Finland, but the labour authorities assist in finding an apartment.

Shifting cultivation was disappearing in this part of Finland because of a loss of agricultural labour to the industries of the towns.

It belongs to the administrative district of Western Finland although Central Finland remains the centre for labour and trade.

The " agrarian movement " thus precedes the labour movement by centuries in Sweden, Finland and Norway.

The Mission took place between April and July 2008 in France, Sweden, Finland, Poland, and Spain, seeking to promote the implementation of flexicurity in different national contexts by raising the profile of the flexicurity approach and its common principles and by helping the relevant labour market actors to take ownership of the process.