The " YYA Treaty " ( Finno-Soviet Pact of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance ) gave the Soviet Union some leverage in Finnish domestic politics.

Her work in the Union spurred her interest in politics, and in 1970 she obtained a post as a lawyer in the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, being the first female ever to work as a lawyer in the Union.

She became acquainted with the world of Finnish politics and government and her political career took a great step forward, as she went on to hold a number of public offices.

Representing the Finnish Party and the National Coalition Party, he also served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1918 and 1944 – 1946 ), and was generally an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.

According to the Finnish historian Martti Turtola, Ryti succeeded in politics in the first few years after the Finnish Civil War because his liberal, democratic, and republican ideals were popular then.

It was at this time that he began his active involvement in politics, becoming a member of the Young Finnish Party.

" He also remained active in politics, being elected to the central committee of the Young Finnish Party.

Though Finland is not currently pursuing any measures to reclaim Karelian lands ceded to Russia, the " Karelian Question " is still a topic present in Finnish politics, but it has never been discussed officially.

Jäätteenmäki used the information to suggest that her rival, the Social Democrat leader Paavo Lipponen, had secretly offered Finnish support for the U. S .- led coalition, a substantial breach against the official policy of neutrality in Finland's foreign politics, and thus associated Finland with what many Finns considered an illegal war of aggression.

In April 2006, Anneli Jäätteenmäki announced to the Finnish media that she was going to take some time out of her parliamentary work due to breast cancer, but she returned to politics following her successful recovery.

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

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The fact that both the right and the left wing need the support from the party has meant that they have been able to affect Finnish politics in a larger scale than the party's actual size.

The position of the Swedish language as one of two official languages in Finland and the Swedish-speaking minority's right to the Swedish culture are two of the results of the party's influence in Finnish politics.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s the threat posed by the Joseph Stalin's communist Soviet Union influenced Finnish politics.

After Finland's independence in 1917, relations with Sweden unexpectedly became strained in connection with the Finnish Civil War and the Åland crisis, which further aggravated the language dispute, sharpening it into a prominent feature of domestic politics during the 1920s and 1930s.

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.

However, an ex post facto law had to be instated for those cases, as the Finnish Criminal Act didn't contain a concept of being responsible for politics resulting in a war.

However, as the country shared 1, 300 kilometres of border with USSR, the position of the Soviet Union could not be ignored in Finnish politics.

* Karelian question in Finnish politics

This area is the " Karelia " of the Karelian question in Finnish politics.

Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (; born 23 June 1937 ) is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland ( 1994 – 2000 ), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.

His father, Oiva Ahtisaari ( whose grandfather Julius Marenius Adolfsen had emigrated with his parents to Finland in 1872 from Tistedalen in Southern Norway ) took Finnish citizenship in 1929 and changed his surname from Adolfsen in 1937.

After completing his military service ( Ahtisaari holds the rank of captain in the Finnish Army Reserve ), he began to study through a distance-learning course at Oulu teachers ' college.

Besides his native language, Finnish, Ahtisaari speaks Swedish, French, English, and German.

During the campaign, there were rumours spread by some political opponents of Ahtisaari that he had a drinking problem or that he had knowingly accepted a double salary from the Finnish Foreign Ministry and from the United Nations while trying to negotiate an end to the Bosnian War.

Ahtisaari kept his campaign promise to visit one Finnish historical province every month during his presidency.

Contrary to some of his predecessors and his successor as the Finnish President, Ahtisaari ended all of his New

President Ahtisaari supported Finland's entry into the European Union, and in a 1994 referendum, 57 percent of Finnish voters were in favour of EU membership.

Often encountering resistance from the Finnish parliament, which preferred a more cautious foreign policy, as well as from within his own party, Ahtisaari did not seek re-election in 2000.

However, Ahtisaari then told the Finnish state broadcaster YLE that " he wished the mission would fall on someone else " which it ultimately did in the person of Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister and longtime U. N. diplomat.

* Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish president

Holkeri was awarded the highest Finnish honorary title of Valtioneuvos ( Counselor of State ) in 1998 by the President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari.

In 1998 Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari said that " Finland's official position is that it does not have territorial demands on Russia.

* Other Club de Madrid members involved in the diplomatic process include Helmut Kohl, the former Chancellor of Germany who oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany, who was a signee to the Dayton Accords, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who urged support for Canada's participation in Operation Allied Force, and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari who, along with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, convinced Serbian President Slobodan Milošević to retreat from Kosovo in accordance with NATO's demands.

Four Finnish presidents have lived there: Mauno Koivisto, Martti Ahtisaari, Tarja Halonen, and the incumbent Sauli Niinistö.

He has measured the skinfolds ( the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades ) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the `` mealie-meal '' eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen.

The Finnish ablative has the ending-lta or-ltä according to the regular rules of vowel harmony.

Finnish Defence Forces reported on 3 September 2012 that the United States has not delivered any of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles they had ordered due to a mysterious engine malfunction in cold weather that the manufacturer, Raytheon, has not been able to determine the fault of.

* 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.

To reflect how the people belonging to the upper castes saw them, the Finnish word for " obscene ", säädytön, has the literal meaning " estateless ".

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

Whereas the current Finnish administration ( notably Jutta Urpilainen ) has been more hesitant towards the EU monetary policy than the previous ones, Eurobarometers and other polls have shown that among Finnish citizens, the opinion trend has been somewhat reversed during recent years.

Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.

Generally, Finland has abided by the principle of neutrality and has good relations with nearly all countries, as evidenced by the freedom of travel that a Finnish passport gives.

Finland's main language, Finnish, is related to Estonian, and there is and has been a certain feeling of kinship.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

The Finnish metal band Nightwish mentions Carter in the song " Tutankhamun " on its début album Angels Fall First: " For Carter has come / To free my beloved ".

There has been considerable debate over the definition of " hate speech " ( vihapuhe ) in the Finnish language.

* A broken tetrameter ( Finnish: murrelmasäe ) has at least one stressed syllable in a falling position.

The Finnish kantele generally has a diatonic tuning though small kantele with between 5 and 15 strings are often tuned to a gapped mode missing a seventh and with the lowest pitched strings tuned to a fourth below the tonic as a drone.

A Finnish luthiery, Koistinen Kantele, has developed also an electric kantele, which employs pick-ups similar to those on electric guitars.

It has gained popularity amongst Finnish heavy metal composers, such as Amorphis.

Kashubian literature has been translated into Czech, Polish, English, German, Belarusian, Slovene and Finnish.

Fayed has three siblings: Ali, Salah, and Safia ; and married Finnish socialite and former model Heini Wathén in 1985, with whom he had four children: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla, and Omar ; and three grandchildren.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.