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Sámi fly their flag in Helsinki

Helsinki has a Sámi population of 1,000 strong. How do they keep their culture, language and identity alive down south in the city?

Mauri Kunnas and his cast of canine characters succeed in bringing history and literature to life in his children’s books.

The banner showing “the blue of our lakes and the white snow of our winters” was made official in 1918, shortly after independence.

We trace one company’s policies aimed at keeping employees as healthy as possible for their whole careers.

Finlandia forms Jean Sibelius’s most famous composition. Read about it and listen to it here.

A long-awaited exhibition about Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen continues its tour, now in the US.

Modern country life: A computer milks the cows on the Immonen family farm, and the cows aren’t complaining.

We meet Harri Koskinen, a famous designer who is so modest that he doesn’t even admit to being modest.