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Gulf of Finland
Gulf of Finland eastern arm of the Baltic Sea, c.285 mi (460 km) long and from c.10 to c.75 mi (15-120 km) wide, between Finland and Russia and Estonia. The shallow gulf receives the Narva River and water from Lake Lagoda and the Saimaa lakes; it is frozen from December to March. The gulf, an important corridor for Russian and Estonian shipping, contains many islands. St. Petersburg and Tallinn (Estonia) and Helsinki (Finland) are the chief ports.
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Finland's reaction to the Georgia crisis.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...at this renewed Russian aggression but Finland, often lumped together with Scandinavia...Review, my article examined the history of Finland's relations with its powerful neighbour, Russia. Finland was part of the Russian Empire until 1917...
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Finland aspires to European Union small country leadership.
Magazine article from: European Business Journal; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; On 1 January 1997 Finland completed two years as the fifteenth...the European Union. On 1 January 1999 Finland will assume the EU Presidency. On that...EMU) is scheduled to begin. Will Finland be ready? The government advocates rapid...
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Finland's focus turns away from sticks to football
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 6/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; SOCCER 2010 WORLD CUP QUALIFIER: Finland v Russia Finland have the opportunity to take a massive huge step towards the World Cup - at the expense of their bitter foe FINLAND AND Russia have been arch-enemies for generations. Even...
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FINLAND: PRESIDENT SPEAKS AT BANQUET TO MARK STATE VISIT BY PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/14/2007; 700+ words
; The office of the President of Finland issued the text of the following speech...brother nation, on this state visit to Finland, Mr President. The Finns and the Estonians...ministers over a decade ago. You visited Finland briefly immediately after your inauguration...
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Finland Offers Russia Stability and Reliability in Trade Ties, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia); 4/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...businesspeople in Russia. Not only are Finland and Russia physically close to each other...tsarist times - during some of which Finland was part of Russia - and right through the Soviet era, when Finland filled huge state orders from across...
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Finland's Armed Forces: Continuity and Change
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...United Nations peacekeeping operations. Finland is systematically developing an array...northern Europe remains a primary concern of Finland, Finnish security policy is expanding...action of the European Union and also Finland. They are thus no longer distant issues...
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Finland, Seeking Post-Soviet Identity, Turns to W. Europe
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/28/1992; ; 700+ words
; Finland, the plucky little country that found...the most serious economic recession in Finland's postwar history and triggered a wide...politics have been turned upside down. Finland has begun to shake off the legacy of...
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Finland Nuclear Power Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2015.
M2 Presswire; 3/4/2009; 700+ words
; ...March 2009-Research and Markets: Finland Nuclear Power Market Analysis and...researchandmarkets.com/research/a987a9/finland_nuclear_po) has announced the addition of GlobalData 's new report "Finland Nuclear Power Market Analysis and...
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Finland's Broadcast And Telecommunications Law Convergence.(Communications Market Act )
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 6/16/2003; 700+ words
; ...and digital broadcast networks in Finland were converged with effect as of July 1, 2002 by broadening the scope of Finland's liberal Telecommunications Market...legislation represents the first phase of Finland's efforts to harmonise its laws...
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Finland at eighty: A more confident and open nation
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; As a historian, the celebration of Finland's eightieth year of independence should...focusing on the decade since independent Finland's seventieth anniversary in 1987. While...Paasikivi-Kekkonen line was more than Finland's foreign policy. It was a civic religion...
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Finland
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
FINLAND Republic of Finland Suomen Tasavalta CAPITAL: Helsinki FLAG: The civil flag contains...noon GMT. Part of Fenno-Scandia (the Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland, Karelia, and the Kola Peninsula), Finland has an area of 337...
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Finland, Intelligence and Security
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Finland, Intelligence and Security Finland's geographic location made the nation one of the key strategic...forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), members of Finland's intelligence community were smuggled into neighboring Sweden...
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Finland, Christianity in
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Finland, Christianity in. The origins of Christianity in Finland are obscure. It seems clear, however, that by the 12th cent. Finland had received Christianity from Sweden and Russia , and in 1220 an independent Church organization was established...
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Gulf of Finland
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gulf of Finland eastern arm of the Baltic Sea, c.285...c.75 mi (15-120 km) wide, between Finland and Russia and Estonia. The shallow gulf...Petersburg and Tallinn (Estonia) and Helsinki (Finland) are the chief ports.
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To the Finland Station
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
To the Finland Station, work by Edmund Wilson , published in 1940 and subtitled “A Study in the Writing and Acting of History...
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