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Finland joins the Swedish and French navies in submarine threat exercises
Practices on the west coast of Sweden start on Wednesday.
PowerLunch with contemporary painter Apolonia Sokol
For the uninitiated, it is fair to say that the life and work of the Franco-Polish portrait painter Apolonia Sokol has so far been far from common. From battling cancer as a child and growing up poor in a theater in Paris, to navigating the art world and brushing shoulders with the famous (and infamous,…
The decline in the labor force in the Finnish economy continues, and certain sectors suffer the most
Ilmarinen's economic index, which tracks the development of more than 60,000 companies employing approximately 500,000 employees, provides up-to-date information on the state of the Finnish economy. Despite a slight improvement from December's 2.8% decline, January's numbers highlight ongoing economic concerns. Jouni VatanenIlmarinen's researcher emphasized the broad nature of the bill, which applies to almost all…
Hamina's battery factory gets permission to discharge waste water into the Baltic Sea
AVI for Southern Finland stated that the sulfate contained in the wastewater does not cause significant harm to the environment or the risk of such harm if the facility is used in accordance with the permit. Non-governmental organizations have launched a petition demanding partial cancellation of the environmental permit and obliging the facility to treat…
Finnish youth leaders demand action in the Gaza crisis
In recent months, Gaza has experienced a significant real-time tragedy, where an area roughly the size of Espoo has been heavily bombed. According to reports (YLE, 22.1), the death toll has already exceeded 20,000, including 9,600 children and young people. As Israeli ground forces plan an operation into Rafah, where an estimated 1.5 million civilians…
The Kremlin is silent on Putin's missing top general
Two rumors have recently grown stronger: that the Ukrainian commander-in-chief is about to be fired and that the Russian commander-in-chief is dead. In Russia, Russian General Valery Gerasimov was last seen in public at the end of December last year. Since a series of Ukrainian attacks on occupied Crimea in early January, it is rumored…
Sanna Marin joins the working group that guides Ukraine's NATO membership
The former Prime Minister of Finland joins other big names such as former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The challenger could turn Putin's election into a nightmare
Across Russia, people have been queuing in the bitter cold to give politician Boris Nadezhdin their vote and thus a place in the upcoming election. With Nadezhdin as a challenger, Putin is in trouble. The election would suddenly turn into a form of open opinion polling about the war of invasion. In Russian presidential elections,…
The Russian military risks a fuel stoppage after an attack on an oil depot
Hear about how the Russian military may be affected by the bombing of several Russian oil facilities by Ukraine, such as the important Russian export port on the Baltic Sea, Ust-Luga near Saint Petersburg. Gas tanks exploded and firefighters covered large cisterns in extinguishing foam. At the same time, there are reports that Russia is…
Protests in Russia after Putin's heat flop
There are reports from various parts of Russia where people are warming themselves outside by open fires. The heating of the houses and the hot water disappeared in the middle of the severe winter cold. Protest videos from the residents are shared, appealing to President Putin to help them. At the same time as mobile…
Sanna Marin and Markus Räikkonen finalized their divorce
The couple married in 2020 and were together for 19 years before announcing their divorce last spring.
The Finnish workforce is shrinking: Ilmarinen's latest economic index reveals a recession
In December, the number of workers fell 2.8%, a steeper decline than the 2.3% seen in November. It is noteworthy that the only sector with growth was communication and information technology, which grew modestly at 0.5%. The negative development of the Ilmarinen index accelerated in December, which suggests that employment is an indicator lagging behind…
Russian fighter jets knocked out – so Putin wants to fight back
In recent weeks, Russia's war in Ukraine has raged on with dramatic news almost daily. With just days left of last year, Ukraine sank a Russian landing craft in the port of Feodosia on the eastern part of the Crimean peninsula. A couple of days earlier, Ukraine allegedly shot down three Russian warplanes over the…
The opposition says that the government abandoned the citizens in the middle of the electricity price spike
When the price of electricity rose in 2022, he reminded, the opposition parties demanded action from the Prime Minister's government. Sanna Marin (SDP). “At that time, the opposition leaders Petteri Orpo of the Coalition and Riikka Purra of the Basic Finns demanded that the government hold an emergency meeting and intervene in the situation without…
Russia's war is dividing Europe's right-wing radicals
There is a tailwind for the parties in Europe that belong to the two groups on the far right in the EU Parliament. If they come together before the upcoming election, a significant power factor is formed, but now they instead crouch under internal division. Hear Ann-Christine Jungar, political scientist at Södertörn University and you…
HS: About a third of Finns are satisfied with the government, the prime minister
The public's satisfaction with the government is thus lower than its predecessor. prime minister Sanna MarinIn surveys conducted between June 2020 and December 2022, the SDP government received a positive assessment from 46–71 percent of the respondents. Supporters of the coalition estimate that the current government has performed at least moderately well with a percentage…
Putin may have renounced Russian losses
Hear about how the death toll affects power in the Kremlin and about the concerns that spread after information from the American think tank ISW (Institute for the Study of War) that Russia may be preparing for a war against NATO. Also, how Ukraine can now start negotiating with the EU for membership. Magnus Christianson,…
This is how Russia uses dolphins in the war against Ukraine
On satellite images, several square objects are suddenly seen lying inside the piers at the port of Sevastopol. Everything points to them being floating cages for marine mammals and the British intelligence service makes the assessment that it is most likely bottlenose dolphins. – We can absolutely say that their importance is increasing. They appear…
The deputy mayor of Helsinki downplays the clash with the football supervisors
The evening newspaper Seiska reported on the incident of last month's match between Finland and San Marino, but Paavo Arhinmäki says that he has a very different view of the events.
It's happening in the war right now
Hear about why Russia cannot dominate the Black Sea but also about how the soldiers at the front are now using the winter. In addition, about the arms deliveries, the fighter jets and how the American Republicans who hesitated about financial support for Ukraine woke up when Moscow started talking about success. Joins make lieutenant…
Putin is gearing up for a war of attrition
Hear the scientists Martin Krag and Gudrun Perssonand correspondent Lubna El-Shantion the biggest challenge to Russian warfare and why the Russian army must be expanded. Also hear about the document that foreigners may be forced to sign to enter Russia. If it becomes a reality, full loyalty is required and means an end to criticism.…
Putin is gearing up for a war of attrition
Hear the scientists Martin Krag and Gudrun Perssonand correspondent Lubna El-Shantion the biggest challenge to Russian warfare and why the Russian army must be expanded. Also hear about the document that foreigners may be forced to sign to enter Russia. If it becomes a reality, full loyalty is required and means an end to criticism.…
Therefore, Putin describes his war as a tragedy
The entire editorial office of the podcast is in Kiev, Ukraine. Hear Anna-Lena LaurenDagens Nyheter’s correspondent in Ukraine. Fredrik Wesslauformer deputy head of the EU mission in Ukraine and now at the Center for East European Studies. Maria Persson Löfgrencorrespondent at Sveriges Radio with several decades of experience reporting from Ukraine. Program manager: Fredrik WadströmProducer:…
Finland’s largest welfare service province is cutting costs by making services more efficient and transferring management personnel
The aim was to achieve permanent cost savings of 42 million euros already next year, which is about half of this year’s operating loss. The negotiations concerned all approximately 20,000 employees in the welfare service sector. By cutting the number of personnel by 240 person-years, savings of around 12 million euros will be achieved. “We…
HS: The government’s measures to cut fuel prices increase traffic emissions
Fuel prices have fallen, traffic emissions have increased. Santtu KarhinenA specialist researcher at the Finnish Environment Agency (Syke) stated on Monday to Helsingin Sanomat that the development does not bode well for emissions, as the parliament is currently considering the government’s proposal, which keeps the distribution obligation at 13.5 percent. prime minister Sanna MarinSDP government…
The speech that raises conspiracy theories about Putin
Nikolai Patrushev, former head of the Russian security service FSB, and secretary of the Russian Security Council is an old friend of Vladimir Putin. In the speech, Patrushev enumerated all the good qualities Putin had as a leader when he came to power and how it has turned the development of Russia in what he…
This is how the world wants to end the Russian invasion
Arms deliveries are the way to create a strong starting point in peace negotiations, says NATO’s Secretary General. Others see the situation from the opposite direction, the fewer guns, the fewer people killed. At the same time, European politicians describe a war-weariness, while Ukrainians ask themselves how countries living in peace can get tired before…