Martti Talvela, Karita Mattila and Jorma Hynninen have become international opera stars, while composers like Kalevi Aho, Olli Kortekangas, Paavo Heininen, Aulis Sallinen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Atso Almila and Ilkka Kuusisto have written successful operas, with Rautavaara especially achieving international success.

President Martti Ahtisaari and the coalition governments led Finland closer to the core EU in the late 1990s.

She started her campaign for the presidency at the beginning of 1999 after President Martti Ahtisaari announced that he would not stand for a second term in the office.

The incumbent, Martti Ahtisaari, refused to run in party preliminaries and thus announced that he would not run for a second term.

* June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland

UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland, leads the status process with Austrian diplomat Albert Rohan, his deputy.

Nevertheless discussions proceeded with UN Commissioner for Namibia N ° 2 Martti Ahtisaari who played a key role in getting the Constitutional Principles agreed in 1982 by the front-line states, SWAPO, and the Western Contact Group.

Former UN Commissioner N ° 2 and now UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari arrived in Windhoek in April 1989 to head the UN Transition Assistance Group's ( UNTAG ) mission.

UNTAG's Martti Ahtisaari took advice from British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who was visiting Southern Africa at the time, and authorized a limited contingent of South African troops to assist the South West African Police in restoring order.

* 2008: Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari was born in Viipuri, Finland ( now Vyborg, Russia ).

In 1952, Martti Ahtisaari moved to Oulu with his family to seek employment.

In July 1989, Glenys Kinnock and Tessa Blackstone of the British Council of Churches visited Namibia and reported: " There is a widespread feeling that too many concessions were made to South African personnel and preferences and that Martti Ahtisaari was not forceful enough in his dealings with the South Africans.

Martti Ahtisaari did not sign the letter of the Nobelists that appealed to release Chinese 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

* Martti Ahtisaari wins 2008 Nobel Peace Prize

He was followed by President Martti Ahtisaari, who was also a supporter of EU membership.

* Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish president

* Three former Presidents of the country, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Kyösti Kallio and Martti Ahtisaari

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

In later years of his career, Sorsa went into his Social Democratic Party's primary elections as candidate for president in 1993, but was defeated in a humiliating way by the relatively unknown international civil servant Martti Ahtisaari.

They all became influential forces behind Martti Ahtisaari campaign.

Since the presidency of Martti Ahtisaari, all surviving recipients of the Mannerheim Cross have been invited to the Independence Day Reception, hosted by the president.

* In 1994 the SFP's candidate Elisabeth Rehn was defeated by the Social Democrat candidate Martti Ahtisaari, also with a narrow margin ( 53. 9 % to 46. 1 %).

* 2008 Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics

It includes five faculties, Infotech Oulu, Thule Institute, Giellagas Institute, Martti Ahtisaari Institute, Centre for Wireless Communications ( CWC ), Centre for Advanced Steel Research ( CASR ), Center of Microscopy and Nanotechnology, Botanical Gardens and Museum, Zoological Museum, Geological Museum and two science libraries ( Pegasus and Tellus ).

Nurmi's siblings, Siiri, Saara, Martti and Lahja, were born in 1898, 1902, 1905 and 1908, respectively.

Tsurunen was born Martti Turunen in the village of Jaakonvaara in Lieksa, Finland.

* Marutei Tsurunen (, tsurunen marutei ), born Martti Turunen in 1940-04-30, the first European-born member of the Diet of Japan.

On 16 June it came to light that a presidential aide, Martti Manninen, affiliated with the Centre Party, had leaked the Foreign Ministry documents.

In June 1989, the UN Special Representative in Namibia and head of UNTAG, Martti Ahtisaari, told the Administrator-General ( South African appointee Louis Pienaar ) that this behaviour was inconsistent with the settlement proposal, which required the police to be lightly armed.

IV District, Turku | IV District or Martti is one of the smallest but most densely populated districts of Turku.

An analysis by Martti Haavio is that Vipunen is not physically large, but his familiar animal ( astral form ) is a whale.

The mayor of Pori is Aino-Maija Luukkonen, who was elected to run the city in 2004 after the former mayor, Martti Sinisalmi, retired from the post.

Vasala is the son-in-law of Martti Matilainen.

She is former President of Service Centre for Development Cooperation and current Member of the executive bureau of Crisis Management Initiative which President is Martti Ahtisaari former President of Finland ( 1994 – 2000 ) and a United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.

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

The person most conspicuously not appearing on the list is the international diplomat and former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, who has been a perennial favourite in Finland for the Nobel Peace Prize, and was finally awarded it in 2008.

Isohookana-Asunmaa is married to her husband Martti, and they have a son named Tuomas.

Others still, among them Martti Haavio, contend that Rauni is simply an epithet for a deity called Ukko, who may or may not be the well-known Finnish thunder god, and that the other theories are based on misreading a poem documenting Finnish Pre-Christian belief authored by Mikael Agricola.

The IV District, also known as Martti ( Finnish ; Martins in Swedish ), is one of the central districts of Turku, Finland.

The district is one of the smallest in Turku, and is centred around the Martinkirkko church, named after the reformer Martin Luther ( Martti Luther in Finnish ).

Martti is also one of the most expensive areas to live in Turku.

As its name suggests, it is located on the east side of the river Aura, and stretches from the IV District ( Martti ) all the way to the mouth of the river.