Yleisradio Oy,abbreviated as Yle,translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company,is Finland's national public broadcasting company,founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock company,which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares many of its organisational characteristics with its British counterpart,the BBC,on which it was largely modelled.
Helsingin Sanomat,abbreviated HS and colloquially known as Hesari,is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries,owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays,it is published daily. Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital,Helsinki,where it is published. It is considered a newspaper of record for Finland.
The Finns Party,formerly known as the True Finns,is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
Sauli VäinämöNiinistö is a Finnish politician who served as the 12th president of Finland from 2012 to 2024.
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician currently serving as the 13th president of Finland since 1 March 2024,having won the 2024 presidential election. He previously served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015.
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of association football in Finland,the highest tier of the Finnish football league structure,comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus,hence the league's name. Veikkausliiga was founded in 1990;before that the top division was called Mestaruussarja since 1930 which was an amateur or semi-professional league. Between 1908 and 1930 the championship was decided as a knock-out cup competition.
Finland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 57 times since its debut in 1961. The Finish participant broadcaster in the contest is Yleisradio (Yle),which select its entrant with the national competition Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu.
The Tana is a 361-kilometre (224 mi) long river in the Sápmi area of northern Fennoscandia. The river flows through Finnmark county,Norway and the Lapland region of Finland. The Sámi name means "Great River". The main tributaries of Tana are Anarjohka and Karasjohka.
Raseborg is a town in Finland,located in the southern coast of the country. Raseborg is situated in the western part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Raseborg is approximately 27,000,while the sub-region has a population of approximately 40,000. It is the 39th most populous municipality in Finland.
Lukas Hradecky is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains both Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Finland national team.
Finland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song "A Little Bit" written by Luca Genta and Gerrit aan't Goor. The song was performed by Nina Åström. The Finnish broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle) returned to the Eurovision Song Contest after a one-year absence following their relegation from 1999 as one of the six countries with the least average points over the preceding five contests. Yle organised the national final Euroviisut 2000 in order to select the Finnish entry for the 2000 contest in Stockholm,Sweden. 12 entries were selected to compete in the national final,which consisted of a semi-final and a final,taking place in January and February 2000. The top six from the semi-final,as selected solely by a public vote,advanced to the final. Six entries competed in the final on 12 January where the 50/50 combination of votes from a ten-member expert jury and votes from the public selected "A Little Bit" performed by Nina Åström as the winner.
Anna-Maja Kristina Henriksson is a Swedish-speaking Finnish politician. She has served as Finland's Minister of Justice,in Jyrki Katainen's cabinet and Alexander Stubb's cabinet from 2011 to 2015,Antti Rinne's cabinet from June to December 2019 and in Sanna Marin's cabinet from December 2019 to June 2023. Henriksson was recorded to have been the country's longest-serving Minister of Justice.
Finland's overall corruption is relatively low,according to public opinion and global indexes and standards. The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International scored Finland at 87 on a scale from 0 to 100. When ranked by score,Finland ranked second among the 180 countries in the Index,where the country or countries ranked first are perceived to have the most honest public sector. Finland has ranked first,second or third every year since the current version of the Index was introduced in 2012. For comparison with 2023 worldwide scores,the best score was 90,the average score was 43,and the worst score was 11. For comparison with regional scores,the highest score among Western European and European Union countries was 90,the average score was 65 and the lowest score was 42.
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu is an annual music contest organised by the Finnish public broadcaster Yle. It made its debut in 2012 as the Finnish selection format for the Eurovision Song Contest,replacing the previous Finnish Eurovision selection Suomen euroviisukarsinta which had been held since 1961.
Li Sigrid Andersson is a Finnish politician who served as Minister of Education from 2019 to 2023. The leader of the Left Alliance,she has been a Member of Parliament since 2015. She is also a city councillor of Turku and was the chair of the party's youth wing,Left Youth.
Sanna Mirella Marin is a Finnish former politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2023. She was re-elected as member of parliament in April 2023 but resigned to become a strategic adviser on political leaders' reform programmes in the Tony Blair Institute in September 2023.
Moominvalley is a British Finnish animated family drama television series. An adaptation of the Moomin books and comics by writer-illustrator Tove Jansson and her brother Lars Jansson,it is created using new techniques in 3D CGI.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Finland has resulted in 1,499,712 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 11,466 deaths.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2024,with a second round held on 11 February. Voters elected a president of the Republic for a six-year term. Incumbent president Sauli Niinistöwas term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election,having served the maximum two terms,ensuring that the president elected would be the country's thirteenth.
