Minorities, some of which enjoy a status recognised by the state, such as the Sami, Swedish-speaking Finns, Romani, Jews, and Tatar, maintain their own cultural characteristics.

The collapse of Russia induced a chain reaction of disintegration among the Finns starting from the government, military power and economy, and spreading downwards to all fields of the society such as local administration and workplaces, and finally to the level of individual citizens as changes and questions of freedom, responsibility and morality.

This eventually spilled over into armed conflict because of the weakness of the Finnish state, lack of basic controlling factors, and instinctive reactions of the individual Finns under most uncertain and fearful conditions.

Most northern, central, and eastern Europeans ( Finns, Swedes, English, Irish, Germans, and Ukrainians ) showed > 90 % in the ‘ northern ’ population group, while most individual participants with southern European ancestry ( Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spaniards ) showed > 85 % in the ' southern ' group.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 opened up dramatic new possibilities for Finland and has resulted in the Finns actively seeking greater participation in Western political and economic structures.

While the Finnish political and intellectual elite mostly understood the term to refer more to the foreign policy problems of other countries, and meant mostly for domestic consumption in the speaker's own country, many ordinary Finns considered the term highly offensive.

The major reasons for rising political tensions among the Finns were the autocratic rule of the Russian Tsar and the undemocratic class system of the estates in the Grand Duchy.

Autonomous status was returned to the Finns in March 1917, and the revolt in Russia handed the Finnish Parliament true political power for the first time.

The Social Democrats had aimed to increase independence of the Finns since the spring of 1917, but now they could not use it for the direct political benefit of their party, and had either to adjust to the right's dominance or try to change everything via a revolution.

In hindsight the events of 1917, starting with the February Revolution, have often been seen simply as precursors of inevitable civil war, but in fact the opposing political factions had made many attempts of their own to create a new order and prevent disintegration among the Finns.

In the end, the general strike in November 1917 led to a marked Finnish political terror ; the Worker's Guards murdered 27 Finns.

Many of its inhabitants were Germans and Finns, with the former forming a political and economical elite in the city.

The Mesabi Range was one of the most important immigration settlements for Finns, who were often active in labor militancy and political activism.

It revolved around the question of what status Swedish — the language which since the Middle Ages had been the main language of administration and high culture in Finland — and, on the other hand, Finnish — the mother tongue of the majority of Finns — should have in political, cultural, educational, and other national arenas.

It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party, National Coalition Party and True Finns, and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament.

A tendency towards favouring old industrial policies have led some political analysts to label True Finns as a center-left party.

Diversity was an American characteristic as the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the English settlers of Jamestown, and the " worthy poor " of Georgia, came to the new continent and built colonies with distinctive social, religious, political and economic styles.

Under the treaty, which was signed on April 6, 1948, the Soviets sought to deter Western or Allied Powers from attacking the Soviet Union through Finnish territory, and the Finns sought to increase Finland's political independence from the Soviet Union.

As many Ingrian Finns, including mixed families, who moved to Finland did not speak any language other than Russian and in many cases identify themselves as Russians, mostly the younger generation, there are social integration problems similar to those of any other migrant groups in Europe, to such an extent that there is a political debate in Finland over the retention of the Finnish Law of Return.

During the hegemony of Germany in 1918, the monarchists won the political battle and a clear majority of the Young Finns voted for a German prince Friedrich Karl to become the King of Finland.

On economic issues, the 1906 party program placed the party in the political centre, between the Social Democratic Party on the left and the Young Finns on the right.

Leaving their homeland to escape the political instability of the time and the spectre of war with Russia many Finns chose this area to resume their primarily agricultural lifestyles.

Mr. Lordi gave a public statement that despite what the campaign poster might suggest, Lordi has no allegiance with the True Finns or any other political party.

Perussuomalaiset Nuoret ( in Finnish ) ( True Finns Youth ) is the youth organization of the Finnish political party.

This was partially due to the number of political refugees escaping persecution after the Finnish Civil War, but also attributable to the response of several, formerly apolitical Finns from rural Ostrobothnia, to harsh economic conditions.

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.

While most of the nations of Western Europe had adopted bicameral parliaments by the end of the 19th century, in 1906 the Finns adopted a unicameral parliamentary system, and female citizens were included in universal suffrage.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

With 79 percent of Finns in its congregation, the Lutheran Church is the largest in the country.

The significance of the railways to the Civil War of the Finns is well symbolized by the most modern and frightening weapon used in the turmoil: armoured train, carrying light cannons and heavy machine guns.

Contact between Sweden and what is now Finland was considerable even during pre-Christian times – the Vikings were known to Finns both due to their participation in commerce and plundering.

The age of the Swedish language's presence in Finland is strongly contested ( see Swedish-speaking Finns ), but by the time of the Second Swedish Crusade in the 13th century, Swedish settlement spread the language into the region.

But while genetically related to the later Baltic Finnic peoples, the Rurikids do not possess the DYS390 = 24 mutation associated with East Finns and Karelians, theirs remaining the ancestral DYS390 = 23 ( which is also found among West Finns ).

Finns living in Finnish Lapland generally call themselves lappilainen, whereas the similar word for the Sámi people is lappalainen.

His pledge is later interpreted by the Finns as a confirmation of constitutional laws, which had, effectively, established Finland as a separate state in real union with the Russia.

The manifesto is viewed as unconstitutional and a coup d ' état by the Finns who have come to consider their country being in real union with Russia.

Generally, cohabitation amongst Finns is most common for people under 30.

Finns learn to eat pea soup as children, as it is a popular school food, being very cheap and easy to prepare.

Evidence for worship of snakes is found among different cultures around the Baltic, amongst them Estonians and Finns.

The Molotov cocktail is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.

Magog is also sometimes said to be the ancestor of the Goths, Finns, Huns, and Slavs.

The Finns also used a vihta ( Western dialect, or vasta in Eastern dialect ), which is a bundle of birch twigs with fresh leaves, to gently slap the skin and create further stimulation of the pores and cells.

Finns ) is commonly used to refer to a member of the Finn ethnic group or a citizen of Finland.

It is usually Ingrian Finns from the former Soviet Union who exercise this right, but American, Canadian or Swedish nationals with Finnish ancestry are eligible.

Most Swedish-speaking Finns emphasize that Finland Swedish is not a language separate from the Swedish of Sweden.

Originally named Sveaborg ( Fortress of Svea ), or Viapori as called by Finns, it was renamed Suomenlinna ( Castle of Finland ) in 1918 for patriotic and nationalistic reasons, though it is still also sometimes known by its original name.

Finnskogen or the forest of the Finns is a belt about wide which runs continuously northwards along the border between Norway and Sweden through six Norwegian municipalities, including Åsnes.

* Gyromitra esculenta this " False morel " is prized by the Finns.

The poem, which is composed episodically, emphasizes the common humanity of all sides in the conflict, while principally lauding the heroism of the Finns.