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Briefly on the European Elections
I’ll be pausing the Finnish Politics Recaps for the summer, but it’s probably necessary to go through the most important political event of the recent…
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Finnish News Recap, May (2nd half): Approaching EU Elections Edition
GRISLY MURDER: The small town of Valkeakoski (fairly near to me, I even actually went to work there for a short while for an internship) was shocked by…
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Finnish News Recap, May (1st half): Eurovision and Israel Edition
The European Parliament elections are arriving, and the candidates are already campaigning, though, as is tradition with the European elections, with…
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Finnish News Recap, April (2nd half): MP Shootout Edition
During the last few days, the Finnish media has been dominated by one subject, so I’ll go through it in detail. On the night between Thursday and…
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Movie Review: Civil War, an On-Film Computer Role-Playing Game and a Thematic Mess
I went to see Civil War at a small local movie theater with friends yesterday. It was mostly a confusing experience. Plotwise, it was threadbare. I kept…
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Finnish News Recap, April (first half): Value Added Tax Edition
TAX HIKES: While austerity and cutting the budget has been one of the main themes for this government, thus far it has refrained from increasing taxes…
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Finnish News Recap, March (2nd half): The Usual
I wrote an article on The Finns Party. I’ve discussed these themes multiple times, but I wanted to focus a bit here on what I feel some important themes…
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Finnish News Recap, March (1st half): Scissors and Strikes Edition
PURRA’S SCISSORS: A while ago, Riikka Purra posted a picture of herself flanked by some other Finns Party politicians, holding scissors. Scissors are a…
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Notes on "And the Band Played On", AIDS and the COVID Pandemic
it’s four years from Covid being declared a pandemic by WHO, so a good time for a bit of pandemic-related writing. Some time ago back, I managed to…
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