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Ilta-Sanomat (Finnish for 'the evening news') is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid-size evening newspapers and the largest paper in the country. Its counterpart and biggest rival is Iltalehti. According to the National Media Research done in 2019, Ilta-Sanomat is also the biggest digital media in Finland and reaches about 2.5 million Finns ...
The number of national daily newspapers in Finland was 64 in 1950, whereas it was 56 in 1965. [2] In 1990 there were 252 newspapers in the country. [3] In 2008 the number was 197. [3] It rose to 324 titles in 2012, but there was a decrease by 10% between 2006 and 2012. [4]
The Independence Day Reception (Finnish: Itsenäisyyspäivän vastaanotto; Swedish: Självständighetsdagens festmottagning) is an annual event organised by the President of Finland at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on 6 December, Finland's Independence Day. Invitations are sent to all members of parliament and other representatives of the ...
In 2008 Iltalehti was the third largest newspaper in Finland. [16] Of tabloid newspapers, the paper had a market share of 40% and its biggest (and only) rival Ilta-Sanomat had a market share of 60% in 2008. [16] Its circulation was 122,548 copies in 2008 and it dropped to 112,778 copies in 2009. [17]
The following lists events that happened during 2001 in Finland. Incumbents. President: Tarja Halonen [1] Prime Minister: Paavo Lipponen [2] Events.
A poll of Finnish teachers, mostly from southern and western Finland, indicated that 41% questioned by Opettaja-lehti ("Teacher Magazine") wanted limits of 20-30% on immigrant students in schools and daycare centres. A 75% majority also said that immigrants should be dispersed throughout the country to avoid concentrations of immigrant ...
The 2017 World Championships on home soil in Lahti, Finland, saw Pärmäkoski win her first and to date only individual WCH medal, a silver in the 15 km skiathlon behind Marit Bjørgen. The 2016–17 season was also Pärmäkoski's big breakthrough in the World Cup; she reached the podium ten times, came in second at the Tour de Ski , and placed ...
The Peasant March, a show of force in Helsinki by the Lapua Movement on 7 July 1930. In Finland, the far right (Finnish: Äärioikeisto) was strongest in 1920–1940 when the Academic Karelia Society, Lapua Movement, Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) and Vientirauha operated in the country and had hundreds of thousands of members. [1]