The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the Finnish capital Helsinki, which Finland rejected.

" Finland rejected territorial demands and was invaded by the Soviet Union in November 1939.

Gustav IV naturally rejected all the proposals of Alexander to close the Baltic against the English ; but took no measures to defend Finland against Russia, though, during the autumn of 1807, it was notorious ( obvious ) that the tsar was preparing to attack the grand duchy.

Finland rejected these demands and intensified its pleas to Sweden, France and the United Kingdom for military support by regular troops.

The Soviet Union wanted to annex Finland and offered a union agreement, but Finland rejected it, which caused Soviet Union to attack against Finland on November 30.

With his comments Brownlee rejected New Zealand Labour Party's plans to model the economy on Finland, and added that Finland " has worse unemployment than us, has less growth than us, can hardly feed the people who live there, has a terrible homicide rate, hardly educates its people, and has no respect for women.

In the " Statsrådsdiktamen " on 19 February 1940, Sweden's king Gustaf V publicly rejected pleas from Finland's government for military intervention in the Winter War to help defend Finland against the Soviet invasion.

Soon afterwards, the nobility of Finland, led by the Sigismund-appointed Governor, Klaus Fleming, rejected these decisions.

The Central Committee of the KTP rejected after voting ( 18 – 9 ) a proposed membership in a new ( electoral ) party, Forces for Change in Finland ( MVS ), in which clearly right-wing elements were also going to participate.

None of the Scandinavian countries ( except Finland ) have joined the Euro, membership being rejected by referendum in both Denmark and Sweden.

The approach from Scunthorpe was rejected by Paatelainen, but soon afterwards he accepted an offer from Finland.

The demands led to demonstrations and large-scale strikes in both industry and agriculture throughout Finland.

* 1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive.

The demands were that Finland cede the Karelian Isthmus, including the city of Viipuri, and Finland's shore of Lake Ladoga.

With Poland being divided between two powers, the Soviet Union put forth its territorial demands to Finland for a minor part of the Karelian Isthmus, a naval base at Hanko ( Hangö ) peninsula and some islands in the Gulf of Finland.

The Soviet Union had lost substantial territory in eastern Europe as a result of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, where it gave in to German demands and ceded control of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Finland, among others, to the " Central Powers ".

The Soviet demands on Finland in the months prior to the outbreak of war had roused public opinion.

Despite the Finnish and Russian demands of including much of today's Swedish Torne River Valley territory into the autonomous Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, the area remained part of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of the peace treaty signed between Russia and Sweden in 1809.

The Svecoman ( Swedish Svekoman ) movement was a Swedish nationalist movement that arose in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the end of the 19th century chiefly as a reaction to the demands for increased use of Finnish vigorously presented by the Fennoman movement.

** The Soviet Union demands troop transfer rights through Finland

Finland, alliance demands from Hitler's Germany and the Ryti-Ribbentrop-agreement.

The Brigade trains units suited for combat on the heavy snow and poor road-infrastructure areas of Northern Finland, and has several variations from normal Finnish Army training schedules and equipment to meet these demands, such as the light tracked all-terrain vehicles used for fast transportation of troops especially during wintertime.

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

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.

Immediately on his return from Finland, Alexei was dispatched by his father to Staraya Russa and Lake Ladoga to see to the building of new ships.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

The Baltic Sea might be considered to be bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga.

In 2011, the Gulf of Finland was completely frozen on 15 February.

The brown bear's principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States ( mostly in Alaska ), Canada, the Carpathian region ( especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on ), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

* 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.

* 1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.

Likewise an almost identical Swedish tale from the 18th century about a golden cross on blue appearing in 1157 during a Swedish battle in Finland.

In Finland, The Evil Dead was later released uncut on DVD by Future Film, and rated K-18.

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.

Indeed, Estonians consider themselves a Nordic people rather than Balts, based on their historical ties with Denmark and particularly Finland and Sweden.

Bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, as well as Sweden, Norway, and Russia, Finland is the northernmost country on the European continent.

* Finland is the only European nation on the mainland of the European continent to lie completely north of the 60th parallel

Finland elects on national level a head of state — the president — and a legislature.

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

Today, state local presence on mainland Finland is provided by 6 regional administrative agencies ( aluehallintovirasto, avi ), and 15 Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment ( elinkeino -, liikenne-ja ympäristökeskus, ely-keskus ).

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland freed itself from the last restrictions imposed on it by the Paris peace treaties of 1947.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland unilaterally abrogated the last restrictions imposed on it by the Paris peace treaties of 1947 and the Finno-Soviet Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance.

Finland did not attempt to join NATO, even though post-Soviet countries on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere joined.