The Christian Democrats are a Christian-democratic political party in Finland. The Christian Democrats have five seats in the Finnish Parliament. The party was represented in the Finnish government by Minister of Interior Päivi Räsänen from 22 June 2011 until 29 May 2015.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Helsinki.
B. Virtanen is a Finnish comic strip written by Ilkka Heilä. In 2009, the comic was published in almost 50 newspapers.
Seela Maini Marjatta Sella is a Finnish film actress. She was born in Tampere, Finland.
Rauli Virtanen is a Finnish writer, freelance journalist, lecturer and television producer. He has covered wars and conflicts since the days of Vietnam and has travelled in 194 countries. He has been a foreign correspondent based in New York and London and a roving correspondent based in Finland.
The Finland Davis Cup team represents Finland in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Suomen Tennisliitto.
The Finnish Hound is a breed of dog originally bred for hunting hare and fox.
Left Group of Finnish Workers was a socialist political party in Finland. The party was active in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The group was founded by activists who had previously cooperated with the Communist Party of Finland (SKP). Niilo Wälläri, Eino Pekkala, Erkki Härmä and Kusti Kulo were some of the well-known leaders of the group. The group had supporters mainly in the southern industrial cities of Finland.
Kari Mäkinen is the former archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. He was elected the 14th Archbishop of Turku and Finland on 11 March 2010, he was installed on 6 June 2010, and he retired on 1 June 2018. His successor, the 15th Archbishop Tapio Luoma was installed on 3 June 2018. His predecessor was Jukka Paarma. Previously Mäkinen served as vicar of Ulvila and since 2006 as Bishop of Turku.
Skepsis ry or the Finnish Association of Skeptics is a Finnish scientific skepticism organization founded in 1987.
Fakta homma is a Finnish comedy television series. It first aired on Finnish TV in 1986 and last aired in 1998.
Eija is a Finnish female given name. Its nameday is the 19th of February. As of January 2013, there are more than 24,500 people registered in Finland with this name. There are also more than 1,200 people with this name in Sweden, but only twenty-eight in Norway one in America, two in Canada, one in England and one in Australia. The origin of the name is eijaa a Finnish exclamation of joy.
Ritva Hannele Lauri is a Finnish actress known for her roles in multiple comedy series. The artistic focus of her career is in stage acting.
Hilda Maria Käkikoski was a Finnish politician, writer and schoolteacher. She was one of the first nineteen women elected to Finnish parliament in 1907.
The corpus of traditional riddles from the Finnic-speaking world is fairly unitary, though eastern Finnish-speaking regions show particular influence of Russian Orthodox Christianity and Slavonic riddle culture. The Finnish for 'riddle' is arvoitus, related to the verb arvata ('guess').
Eveliina Tammenlaakso, better known as simply Evelina, is a Finnish singer and songwriter. She is signed to the Universal Music Group label M-Eazy Music.
Road North is a 2012 Finnish comedy film directed by Mika Kaurismäki.
Sinna Virtanen is a Finnish playwright and dramaturge. She finished her drama studies in 2015. Virtanen belongs to a Helsinki based collective that works on interface between science and arts concentrating on geography, archeology and geology, exploring methods to combine them with theatrical arts.
Hanna Kyllikki Snellmann is Professor of Ethnology and Vice-rector at the University of Helsinki. The focus of her research is on migration within and from the Arctic.
The Lalli Alliance of Finland was a Finnish far-right organization founded in 1929. The main themes of the Lalli Alliance were Finnish language nationalism and opposition to communism, parliamentarism and democracy. The aim of the organization was a coup and the appointment of a dictator to lead Finland. The most significant achievement of the organization is considered to be that the Lalli Alliance has been considered to have acted as a precursor to the Lapua movement.
