When the sun doesn’t rise in northern Finland
The Polar Night Counter shows how long kaamos, the season with no sunrise, lasts in northern Finland. It also shows how long is left before the winter solstice.
Finnish views of the Winter War: Portraying trauma mixed with heroism
The 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War is commemorated in 2019. For Finland, this means remembering the outbreak of the Winter War. We talk to Finnish historian Antero Holmila about how that memory is seen from a modern perspective.