The Finnish and Spanish co-coproduced short film "I should have kissed you in Ankara" directed by Miguel Pons and starred by the Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen and the American Javier Buckenmeyer, has been selected at the XV Kerry Film Festival held this week in Ireland. The film was screened on ...

The singer Eppu Uutinen represents the rock spirit that pervades today's Nordic youth. Based in Helsinki, Finland, this huge Finn with a deep and charismatic voice always takes the stage with the aim of offering the real essence of rock; pure energy and full understanding of how a show should ...

The most mentioned Finnish gastronomy highlights are probably its tasty herrings, the stewed reindeer meat or the amazing wild berry desserts, but actually the Finnish cuisine is a lot more to that. The four seasons of the Northern Europe have marked the whole Scandinavian area. In winter a lot of ...

Name in Finnish: SuomiForm of government:   Republic, parliamentary democracy, elections every four yearsHead of state:  President, elected for six yearsPopulation 5.2 million, 17 inhabitants per km2Official languages: Finnish (93%), Swedish (6%) Dimensions: is the fifth European country regarding the surface, 338,145 km2,10% of the surface are covered with inland waters and  69% of forestApproximately 190,000 lakes,The most vast archipelago of EuropeApproximately 100,000 ...

The Finnish culture can be seen as part of the Western culture which is strongly influenced by Catholic and Protestant Christian tradition. Although it is thought that the Finnish people and Finnish-speakers have lived in the geographical area of Finland for at least 5000 years, the impact of German and Swedish culture is very big in Finland, probably because Finland belonged to Sweden for 700 years between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Russian influence has ...