National Library of Finland: Gaining a perspective on war through digitised warfront newspapers. “Warfront papers were newspapers for soldiers on the front. The National Library has, in cooperation with the library of the National Defence University, digitised a total of 144 warfront papers from 1939–1945 and made them available.”
National Library of Finland: New resources in the National Library search service. “As of June, the National Library of Finland search service can help you find manuscript and archival material as well as ephemera. As the library collections contain several kilometres of such resources, their comprehensive cataloguing is expected to take years. The bibliographic information available through the search service will increase gradually as the daily work of describing and cataloguing resources progresses.”
National Library of Finland: Käärijä’s Eurovision journey captured in the Finnish Web Archive . “Käärijä came to international attention when he represented Finland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in second place. The National Library of Finland has now collected online materials on the country’s most talked-about phenomenon of the spring 2023.”
National Library of Finland: The new website of the Jean Sibelius Works project. “The renewed trilingual website of the complete critical edition of Jean Sibelius’s works (JSW) contains information about this large-scale collaborative project involving the National Library, the Sibelius Society, and the German publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel, its activities and publications.”
National Library of Finland: Dozens of online forums collected for the Finnish Web Archive. “Online forums and message boards have long been significant venues for special-interest discussion and debate. They have also played an important role in the emergence of Finnish online culture. The National Library of Finland has now collected 55 Finnish online forums as a part of national cultural heritage.”
Yle: Finnish grammar foils pro-Russia trolls. “Attempts by trolls to write the sentence ‘Nato cannot save Finland’ in Finnish failed because the language has two different words for ‘save’, with two completely different meanings.”
US News & World Report: Finland Most Resistant to ‘Fake News,’ Report Finds. “Finland is the European country that is least susceptible to ‘fake news,’ with other Nordic countries trailing close behind, according to a recent analysis of media literacy. The United States and much of Western Europe – including the United Kingdom, France and Germany – ranked in a lower tier with countries such as Latvia and Lithuania in an expanded version of the analysis, which measures countries’ susceptibility to false news reports.”
Bloomberg: Conspiracy Theories Prompt Top Finnish Health Authority to Quit Twitter. “The rampant spread of conspiracy theories on Twitter has pushed Finland’s top health authority to stop using the platform to disseminate its public-health messages.”
Data Center Dynamics: Update: Yandex seeks new electricity contract as Finland data center runs on diesel. “The 40MW facility in Mäntsälä, Finland, was cut off on 25 April because Yandex’s electricity contract had run out, according to local news services. The data center appears to be running at reduced capacity on its diesel generators and is putting little or no heat into the district heating system, which is now being fed using light fuel oil and natural gas, according to Nivos.”
Euronews: Finnish government websites hit by cyberattack during Zelenskyy speech. “Finland’s government says that its websites were targeted in a cyberattack during a speech to parliament by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The official pages of the Finnish foreign and defence ministries were both down briefly on Friday afternoon.”
Washington Post: Finland seizes Russian artwork worth $46 million under sanctions. “Finnish Customs has seized artwork en route to Russia as part of sanctions imposed by the European Union. The paintings, sculptures and antiquities are worth 42 million euros ($46 million), the agency said.”
IceNews: Website to Finland’s space-related projects recently launched. “A new website dedicated to Finland’s space-related projects has recently been launched, the Finnish government has been announced. A collaboration between Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and Business Finland, the website will feature all of the country’s latest space projects and information about Finland’s space administration and international cooperation.”
BBC: Finnish teacher who secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text. “Every day at 09:00, Ilona Taimela greeted her students and explained their assignments. Her daily routine lasted about a year from May 2020 and in common with many other teachers she was working remotely. Except Ms Taimela’s students were being taught in a detention camp in north-eastern Syria – a world away from her desk in Finland.”
BBC: Sanna Marin: Finland’s PM sorry for clubbing after Covid contact. “Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case. Sanna Marin went on a night out in Helsinki on Saturday, hours after her foreign minister had tested positive. She was initially told she did not need to isolate because she had been fully vaccinated, but later missed a text that advised her to do so.”
Bloomberg News: Finnish Leader’s Night Out After Covid Exposure Causes Furor . “Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has come under heavy media criticism after enjoying a night on the town knowing she had been exposed to the coronavirus.”
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