#finland
Finnish Broadcasting Company #Yle has got hold on a home video of #Putin.
It was filmed in #Raasepori, #Finland about 30 years ago, when he was a #KGP-agent.
It's significant, because one can see Putin in a way, that he doesn't have total control over the situation and how he is presented.
In English:
https://yle.fi/a/74-20051353?origin=rss
På svenska:
https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-10042071
Suomeksi:
https://yle.fi/a/74-20051022?origin=rss
#Venäjä #Russia #Ryssland #Neuvostoliitto #Sovjetunionen #CCCP #USSR #SovietUnion
https://www.europesays.com/823227/ Lapland’s cool summers new asset, tourism industry says- YLE #finland
https://www.europesays.com/822969/ Yearly northern light picture from kaldoaivi wilderness 17.9 #finland
https://www.europesays.com/822923/ Historical photographs from Helsinki, Finland 1969-1972 (credits to Simo Rista/Helsinki City Museum) #finland
https://www.europesays.com/822793/ Where can I buy souvenir related to Hyökkäys? #finland
https://www.europesays.com/822707/ My wife’s Finnish kaksoispuukko (double knife), made by Iisakki Järvenpää Oy, part of the kansallispuku (national costume) of Etelä-Pohjanmaa (Southern Ostrobothnia), Finland. #finland
⚡️🇫🇮Seized Russian assets should be used in rebuilding Ukraine - Finland’s presidential candidate (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3765163-seized-russian-assets-should-be-used-in-rebuilding-ukraine-finlands-presidential-candidate.html #Ukraine #Finland #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#SanctionChinaNow
#NoEUPrezForHungary
@KissAnne
This is the central station, correct?
https://www.europesays.com/822101/ Is this real? Can the northern lights really be this intense in Lapland? #finland
https://www.europesays.com/822069/ More Finnish medal info? These were my grandparents’ medals. Thank you. ❤️ #finland
If Russia wins, it'll take Poland and the Baltics next. That means #America will be at war #Ukraine #USA #UK #EU #Europe #Czech #Poland #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia #Germany #France #Austria #Hungary #Romania #Switzerland #Canada #Slovakia #Italy #Ireland #Europe #Netherlands #Japan #Australia #Finland #Sweden #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Spain #NATO #G7 #StandWithUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState https://bird.makeup/users/nikkihaley/statuses/1701946878210818215
https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_OJ6mBAyHQ&si=kfAwQoMaGvG_2z3S
🇫🇮🇳🇴NATO drills show motorways as runways is effective alternative to Base construction (Kanal 13 - Azeri News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Azerbaijan #Finland #Norway #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#SanctionChinaNow
#NoEUPrezForHungary
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WANswi1iCPU&si=GcgoS-pBgG4nXJo2
‼️🇫🇮NATO fighter jets from Norway land on highway in Finland for the first time (Reuters News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Norway #Finland #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#SanctionChinaNow
#NoEUPrezForHungary
https://www.europesays.com/821863/ Self-employment and health insurance #finland
Loving #EuropesBiggestDanceShow on #Radio1. #YleX smashed it from #finland 🤩🤩🤩 #dance #edm #music
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qyqm
How #Finland Put #Traffic #Crashes on Ice
The Nordic nation’s rate of vehicle fatalities is a fraction of the toll in the #US, despite a harsh climate and ice-covered streets. Here’s how the Finns do traffic safety.
by David Zipper
"The 1960s were a boom time for #Helsinki, Finland’s capital and largest city. Rising postwar incomes enabled a growing number of residents to purchase a car; the number of vehicles registered in the city tripled in just seven years. #Gridlock inevitably followed.
"To manage traffic and plot its future, the city of Helsinki commissioned a transportation master plan, co-authored by the US company Wilbur Smith & Associates and the Finnish firm Pentti Polvinen ky. In 1968, the consultants delivered their eye-watering proposal: nearly 200 miles of new highways in the Helsinki region, with much of downtown leveled to create space for high-speed motorways. The city’s existent streetcar system would be scrapped.
"The Finnish response to that vision was an emphatic ei (“no”). According to the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the rejected 1968 plan 'has become a kind of dystopia, an extreme example of what car-driven planning can lead to.'
"Instead of committing its future to the automobile, as so many US cities did in that era, Helsinki kept its streetcars and embarked on a massive transit expansion. The city constructed the world’s northernmost subway, which opened in 1982. As of 2016, roughly a quarter of urban trips in Finland occur on foot, over 9% by transit, and 7.5% by bike. (In the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has a population about 1.3 million, those numbers are even higher.) One in seven Finns live in rural areas, roughly equivalent to the US share.
"The Finnish transportation system is as impressive for its safety as it is for its multimodality. Only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents — just one-third the US rate. And Finland’s roadways are growing steadily safer. Fatalities plunged 50% between 2001 and 2019, when Helsinki made international news for going an entire year without a single pedestrian or cyclist fatality. (Last year there were two, down from 22 in 1990.) Like its neighbors #Norway and #Sweden, birthplace of the #VisionZero traffic safety movement, Finland’s roads today are safer than they have been in decades — unlike so many of the US cities that have tried to adopt Vision Zero principles.
"As I’ve written previously in CityLab, the US is an outlier in global #RoadSafety: Americans are now at least twice as likely to die in a vehicle crash as residents of Canada, France and Japan (among many other countries).
"But the safety record of Finland, a country associated with empty, rural roads and cold, dark weather, is particularly impressive. Here are a few reasons why so few people die in crashes in this Nordic nation.
"Set Stricter Limits
"Soon after dumping Helsinki’s car-centric 1968 plan, Finnish authorities embarked on a decades-long campaign to slow motor vehicles. 'In urban environments, there has been a steady decrease in maximum road speed,' said Heikki Liimatainen, a professor of transport and logistics at Tampere University. 'In the 1970s, it was normally 50 kilometers per hour in cities; then in 2000, it went down to 40 km/h. Now, more than half of our urban streets have a 30 km/h limit.'
"In Helsinki, city officials leverage street design to reinforce lower speed limits. 'We deliberately have narrow lanes, so the driver doesn’t feel comfortable,' said Reetta Putkonen, the director of Helsinki’s transportation planning division. 'Three and a half meters is a normal lane width, even 3.2. We also use trees and bushes to push people to go slower.' For comparison, in the US many lanes are 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide."
#Cycling #Transportation #Cities #Safety #SpeedLimits #UrbanRenewal #PublicTransportation
The Guardian:
"Tax the rich"
Can the UK follow Finlands childcare success?
#childcare #uk #Finland #ToryFail #capitalism #socialism #politics
Hi all interested in #energy and energy transition !
Next week we at the Sorsa Foundation in #Finland will be publishing a thick report examining if the #energytransition could happen much faster than commonly believed.
The argument is basically the same as in e.g. RMI's recent work - that there's a virtuous cycle of mass production and lower prices, but we look at it from a Finnish PoV.
I'll be posting details when the report is out.
If any journalist wants access, contact me!
Hi you all!
I'm working for just, #sustainable #transition at the Social Democratic think tank Sorsa Foundation (www.sorsafoundation.fi) in #Helsinki, #Finland.
I've been trying to advance #sustainability since about 2007. I originally have a background in #engineering and #design, and did a PhD about technological substitutes for critical resources. However, #energytransition has been my main focus.
I firmly believe that broadening #democracy is THE key to sustainability.
Read it and weep. Unless, of course, you are riding a Finnish train.
' Rather than sardining passengers into cramped carriages built to maximise ticket sales, Finnish trains are built for living. Childrearing, work calls, hot meals, having a pint with your mates – all are possible on the Finnish train. The result is that while Brits endure countless hours of mute suffering, Finns actually enjoy travelling by train.... '
https://novaramedia.com/2023/09/12/finnish-trains-are-what-the-uk-could-have-if-it-gave-a-shit/
Finnish Trains Are What the UK Could Have If It Gave a Shit
Crisps from the snack trolley? Try an omelette from the pub carriage.
As early as the mid-1800s, the country began importing rolling stock from England, at the time the global leader in rail technology. Two centuries later, we’re practically still riding steam trains – while Finns are steaming straight into the future.
https://novaramedia.com/2023/09/12/finnish-trains-are-what-the-uk-could-have-if-it-gave-a-shit/
Not a revolutionary development, but worth to note that the infamous Yan Petrovsky from #Rusich applied for an asylum in #Finland for the second time after his arrest. Meanwhile #Ukraine has applied for his extradition based on the charges of participation in war crimes.
Meanwhile, and this is my own observation, Petrovsky has practically disappeared from Russian news and Telegram channels, including “Rusich”. This could indicate they have given up on an idiot who happily travelled to enemy’s country (this tone sounded in some of the Russian channels), or they were simply advised to keep media silence in order to avoid excessive attention while Russian diplomacy tries to exchange him for someone. But I doubt the latter, tone of the Russian media was a bit like their diplomats are rather disgusted with Petrovsky and not extremely keen to help.
Europe’s rail network has dramatically declined over the past three decades, new research warns, while investment in roads has soared.
The bulk of the railway closures took place in Germany, Poland and France.
Ten countries have bucked the trend, however, and report a net increase of their railway networks’ lengths.
#Europe #Germany #Poland #France #Belgium #Croatia #Estonia #Finland #Ireland #Italy #Netherlands #Slovenia #Spain #Switzerland #Rail #Trains #Transport
"Rather than sardining passengers into cramped carriages built to maximise ticket sales, Finnish trains are built for living. Childrearing, work calls, hot meals, having a pint with your mates – all are possible on the Finnish train. The result is that while Brits endure countless hours of mute suffering, Finns actually enjoy travelling by train"
Rivkah Brown on removing the profit motive from rail travel.
#Finland #RailTravel #Railways #PublicTransport #Transport
Hva om #Norge og #Sverige gikk til innkjøp nye sett med #nattog noe à la #Finland men som utnyttet den norske og svenske togprofil/lastprofil https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastprofil#Lastprofiler_i_Sverige til det fulle, så brede og så høye vogner som mulig?
Vogner som kunne brukes innomlands, og mellom Norge og Sverige: #Oslo-#Trondheim, #Trondheim-#Bodø, #Gøteborg-#Stockholm-#Åre(+#Trondheim), #Stockholm-#Narvki, #Oslo-#Narvik osv.
For samferdsel og som del av totalforsvaret.
/Cc @nikolar
The National Library of #Finland has now posted my "Search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system" talk.
I previously posted this, but it was embedded in a huge stream. With luck, you'll find this one easier to watch.
If the preamble is boring, skip ahead to 2m50s for the real intro.
And already we're getting even more information that what I presented just a few weeks ago!
#science #astronomy #exobiology #ScienceFiction #Biology #space #NewSpace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9MPI5WgiwU&ab_channel=Kansalliskirjasto
#Finland #energy: Olkiluoto's three reactors are all back online and for a short period, the extreme price volatility went down. Due to high winds, the price of electricity in fact went near zero again. But the reactors at Loviisa are in annual maintenance and the wind died down again - so, back to high pricing it is. I keep yammering on about ability to store energy - this is why.
⚪ Ein, mir-ist-es-zu-warm...
Lieblingsfoto. 🌡️
🟤 An, it's-too-warm-for-me...
Favorite photo.
📷 by Artist: #MikkoLagerstedt in Loc.: Coast of #Finland 🇫🇮 - Title: untitled - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #PhotoArt #Photography #Fotografie #IceIceBaby #NoAI #NoPhotoshop ➡️ #APhotoLove