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ABB Group
ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipments, and automation technology areas.
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic (illustration, below).
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Allu Tuppurainen
Allan Rauli Kristian "Allu" Tuppurainen (born 1 April 1951) is a Finnish actor and screenwriter residing in Vaasa.
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American football
American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Appellate court
An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court, court of appeals (American English), appeal court (British English), court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.
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August Alexander Levón
August Alexander Levón (1820-1875) was born in Raahe.
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Åbo Akademi University
Åbo Akademi University (Åbo Akademi) is the only exclusively Swedish language university in Finland (or anywhere outside Sweden).
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Šumperk
Šumperk (Mährisch Schönberg) is a district town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.
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Battle of Oravais
The Battle of Oravais (Finnish: Oravaisten taistelu, Swedish: Slaget vid Oravais) was one of the decisive battles in the Finnish War, fought from 1808 to 1809 between Sweden and the Russian Empire as part of the wider Napoleonic Wars.
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Battle of Vaasa
The Battle of Vasa was fought between Sweden and Russia during the Finnish War 1808-09.
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Beata Bladh
Beata Bladh (1697-2 June 1754) was a Finnish merchant and shipowner.
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Belfry (architecture)
The belfry is a structure enclosing bells for ringing as part of a building, usually as part of a bell tower or steeple.
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Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham is the largest city in and the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington.
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Big Game (2014 film)
Big Game is a 2014 Finnish action adventure film directed by Jalmari Helander, based on the original story by Helander and Petri Jokiranta.
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Björn Kurtén
Björn Olof Lennartson Kurtén (19 November 1924 – 28 December 1988) was a Finnish vertebrate paleontologist, belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority of his country.
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Blue Highway (tourist route)
Blue Highway (Blå vegen, Blå vägen, Sininen tie, Голубая дорога) is an international tourist route from Norway via Sweden and Finland to Russia.
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Camilla Nylund
Camilla Nylund (born 11 June 1968) is a Finnish operatic soprano.
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Capital Region of Denmark
The Capital Region of Denmark (Region Hovedstaden) is the easternmost administrative region of Denmark, established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which abolished the traditional counties (Danish plural: amter, singular: amt) and set up five regions.
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Carl Axel Setterberg
Carl Axel Setterberg (1812-1871) was an architect from Bogsta parish in Södermanland, Sweden.
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Carl Gustaf Wolff
Carl Gustaf Wolff (28 October 1800 - 19 July 1868) was a prominent Finnish shipowner and businessman during his time.
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Charles IX of Sweden
Charles IX, also Carl (Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death.
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Charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.
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City manager
A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.
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Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.
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Daco Junior
Sebastian Da Costa (born 1990 in Luanda, Angola), better known by his stage name Daco Junior, is a singer/songwriter, rapper and a record producer from Vaasa, Finland.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.
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Edvin Hevonkoski
Edvin Hevonkoski (10 September 1923, Alavus – 8 September 2009, Vaasa) was a Finnish sculptor and contemporary artist who lived his later years in Vaasa.
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Empire style
The Empire style (style Empire) is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism.
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Enclave and exclave
An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.
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Fanny Churberg
Fanny Churberg (12 December 1845 Vaasa – 10 May 1892 Helsinki) was a Finnish landscape painter.
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February Revolution
The February Revolution (p), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
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Fennoman movement
The Fennomans, members of the most important political movement (Fennomania) in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the fennophile interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries.
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Finland
Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.
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Finland Swedish
Finland Swedish or Fenno-Swedish (finlandssvenska, suomenruotsi) is a general term for the variety of Standard Swedish and a closely related group of dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland by the Swedish-speaking population as their first language.
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Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War was a conflict for the leadership and control of Finland during the country's transition from a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire to an independent state.
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Finnish language
Finnish (or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.
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Finnish War
The Finnish War (Finska kriget, Финляндская война, Suomen sota) was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from February 1808 to September 1809.
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Fritz Jakobsson
Fritz Jakobsson (born 8 January 1940 in Pori) is a painter living in Vaasa, Finland most known for his portraits.
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Future Film
Future Film Ltd (Future Film Oy) is a Finnish-based home-video distribution company headquartered in Vaasa.
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Gimmel (band)
Gimmel were a Finnish girl group.
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Grand Duchy of Finland
The Grand Duchy of Finland (Suomen suuriruhtinaskunta, Storfurstendömet Finland, Великое княжество Финляндское,; literally Grand Principality of Finland) was the predecessor state of modern Finland.
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Hanken School of Economics
The Hanken School of Economics (Swedish: Svenska handelshögskolan, also known as Hanken) is a business school located in Helsinki and Vaasa.
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Harstad
is the second-most populated municipality in Troms county, Norway.
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Heli Koivula Kruger
Heli Koivula Kruger (née Heli Maarit Koivula; born 27 June 1975) is a Finnish former track and field athlete.
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Helsingør
Helsingør, classically known in English as Elsinore, is a city in eastern Denmark.
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Helsinki
Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.
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House of Vasa
The House of Vasa (Vasaätten, Wazowie, Vaza) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden, ruling Sweden 1523–1654, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1587–1668, and the Tsardom of Russia 1610–1613 (titular until 1634).
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Idols (Finnish TV series)
Idols is a Finnish reality-television singing competition that airs on MTV3 (and formerly also on Sub).
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Jani Liimatainen
Jani Allan Kristian Liimatainen (born 9 September 1980 in Kemi, Finland) is a Finnish musician, songwriter and backing vocalist.
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Jani Toivola
Jani Petteri Toivola (born 27 November 1977 in Vaasa, Finland) is a Finnish actor and dancer.
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Jarl Hemmer
Jarl Robert Hemmer (18 September 1893 – 6 December 1944) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author.
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Jenny Wilhelms
Jenny Wilhelms (born 1974) is a Finnish musician.
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Joachim Kurtén
Anders Joachim Kurtén (1836–1899) was born in Kronoby into the family of sea captain Henrik Kurtén.
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Johan Bergenstråhle
Johan Bergenstråhle (13 May 1756 – 7 March 1840 in Stockholm) was a Swedish military officer who participated in Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790), and the Finnish War.
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Jorma Ojaharju
Jorma Ojaharju (Vaasa, 16 October 1938 – 8 February 2011) was a Finnish author.
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Kai Hahto
Kai Hahto (born 31 December, 1973 in Vaasa, Finland) is a Finnish musician and drummer.
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Kiel
Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 249,023 (2016).
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Korsholm
Korsholm (Mustasaari) is a municipality of Finland.
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Korsholm Church
Korsholm Church (Korsholms kyrka, Mustasaaren kirkko) is a church building in the city of Vaasa, in the region of Österbotten in Finland.
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Korsholma Castle
Korsholm Castle (Korsholman linna, Korsholms slott, also known as Chrysseborg) was a medieval castle in Vaasa, Finland.
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Kotipizza
Kotipizza Oyj is the largest pizza restaurant chain in the Nordic countries.
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Kuortane
Kuortane is a municipality of Finland.
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Laihia
Laihia (Laihela) is a municipality of Finland, founded in 1576 through a separation from Isokyrö and Korsholm.
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Leif Segerstam
Leif Selim Segerstam (born 2 March 1944) is a Finnish conductor, composer, violinist, violist and pianist, especially known for writing 319 symphonies as of April 2018, along with other works in his extensive œuvre.
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Library
A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.
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Malmö
Malmö (Malmø) is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania.
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Marika Fingerroos
Marika Fingerroos (born March 29, 1979 in Ruukki, now a part of Siikajoki, Finland) is a Finnish model who together with Martina Aitolehti form the singer duo Salarakkaat.
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Mathilda Wrede
Mathilda Wrede (March 8, 1864, Vaasa – December 12, 1928), was a Finnish evangelist and baroness, known for being a precursor in the rehabilitation of prisoners, and known in Finland as "Friend of the prisoners".
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (often Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in English and commonly shortened to "Meck-Pomm" or even "McPom" or "M-V" in German) is a federal state in northern Germany.
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Mikael Jungner
Mikael Jungner (born 20 April 1965 in Helsinki) is the former party secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, a member of the Finnish parliament, and a former managing director of the Finnish national broadcaster Yle.
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Mikaela Ingberg
Mikaela Johanna Emilia Ingberg (born 29 July 1974 in Vaasa) is a female javelin thrower from Finland.
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Monica Aspelund
Monica Aspelund (born 16 July 1946 in Vaasa) is a Finnish singer.
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Morogoro
Morogoro is a town with a population of 315,866 (2012 census) in the eastern part of Tanzania, west of Dar es Salaam, the country's largest city and commercial centre, and east of Dodoma, the country's capital city.
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Morogoro Region
Morogoro Region is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.
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Nándor Mikola
Nándor Mikola (born Nándor Josef Mikolajcsik,, 27 November 1911 – 3 May 2006) was a watercolor painter from Vaasa, Finland, but born in Budapest, Hungary.
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Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I (r; –) was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855.
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Nikolai Nikitich Demidov
Count Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (9 October / November 1773, Chirkovitsy, Saint Petersburg Governorate – 22 April 1828, Florence) was a Russian industrialist, collector and arts patron of the Demidov family.
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Novia University of Applied Sciences
The Novia University of Applied Sciences (Yrkeshögskolan Novia) is an institution of higher professional education (vocational university) in Finland.
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Nykarleby
Nykarleby (Uusikaarlepyy) is a town and municipality of Finland.
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Olomouc Region
Olomouc Region (Olomoucký kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western and central part of its historical region of Moravia (Morava) and in a small part of the historical region of Czech Silesia (České Slezsko).
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Onni Tommila
Onni Tommila (born 1999) is a Finnish child actor of Sami origin, known for the films Last Cowboy Standing (2009), Rare Exports (2010) and Big Game (2014).
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Oskar Osala
Oskar Osala (born 26 December 1987) is a Finnish professional ice hockey left wing currently playing with Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
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Oskar Wasastjerna
Jakob Frans Oskar Wasastjerna (1819–1889) was a nineteenth-century Finnish-Swedish historian and author.
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Ostrobothnia (region)
Ostrobothnia (Österbotten; Pohjanmaa) is a region of Finland.
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Patrician (post-Roman Europe)
Patricianship, the quality of belonging to a patriciate, began in the ancient world, where cities such as Ancient Rome had a class of patrician families whose members were the only people allowed to exercise many political functions.
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Pärnu
Pärnu (Pernau) is the fourth-largest city in Estonia.
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Pärnu County
Pärnu County (Pärnu maakond), or Pärnumaa (Kreis Pernau), is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Pekka Puska
Pekka Puska (born 18 December 1945 in Vaasa) is a Finnish physician, docent and politician.
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Pekka Strang
Pekka Kristian Strang (born 23 July 1977) is a Finnish actor and the artistic director of Lilla Teatern in Helsinki, 2005–2014.
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Pesäpallo
Pesäpallo (boboll, both names literally meaning "nest ball", also referred to as "Finnish baseball") is a fast-moving bat-and-ball sport that is often referred to as the national sport of Finland and has some presence in other countries including Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, and Canada's northern Ontario (the latter two countries have significant Nordic populations).
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Pohjalainen
Pohjalainen is a morning broadsheet newspaper published in Vaasa, Finland.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.
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Rabbe Grönblom
Rabbe Anders Grönblom (May 3, 1950 Helsinki, Finland – June 29, 2015) was a Finland-Swedish businessman who started a successful pizza business in Vaasa, Finland.
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a 2010 Finnish dark fantasy horror thriller film written and directed by Jalmari Helander about people living near the Korvatunturi mountain who discover the secret behind Santa Claus.
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Rölli
Rölli-peikko (Finnish for "Rölli the Troll") is a character from Finnish television portrayed by Allan "Allu" Tuppurainen.
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Running the gauntlet
To run the gauntlet is to take part in a form of corporal punishment in which the party judged guilty is forced to run between two rows of soldiers who strike out and attack them.
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Russia
Russia (rɐˈsʲijə), officially the Russian Federation (p), is a country in Eurasia. At, Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people as of December 2017, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east. Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and an active global partner of ASEAN, as well as a member of the G20, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as being the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and one of the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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Sari Krooks
Sari Kristiina Krooks (born February 2, 1968) is a Finnish female ice hockey player.
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Scania
Scania, also known as Skåne, is the southernmost province (landskap) of Sweden.
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Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.
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Schwerin
Schwerin (or; Mecklenburgian: Swerin; Polish: Swarzyn or Zwierzyn; Latin: Suerina) is the capital and second-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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Senate of Finland
The Senate of Finland (Suomen senaatti) combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1816 to 1917 and in the independent Republic of Finland from 1917 to 1918.
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Seppo Evwaraye
Seppo Evwaraye (born June 1, 1982) is a Finnish former offensive guard in American football and current general manager and interim head coach of Finnish team Wasa Royals of Maple league.
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Seppo Sanaksenaho
Seppo Sanaksenaho (May 5, 1938 – November 1, 2011) was a Finnish politician who served as the Mayor of Vaasa from 1997 to 2001.
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Sister city
Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.
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Southwest Finland
Southwest Finland, also known as Finland Proper (Varsinais-Suomi, Egentliga Finland) is a region in the south-west of Finland.
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Strömberg (company)
Stromberg Oy or Strömberg Ab, was a company founded by Gottfrid Strömberg in 1889 in Helsinki, Finland, and manufactured electromechanical products such as: generators, electric motors and small power plants.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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The Voice TV
The Voice TV is a network of music television channels owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media (formally SBS Broadcasting Group).
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Toivo Kuula
Toivo Timoteus Kuula (7 July 1883, Vaasa – 18 May 1918, Viipuri) was a Finnish composer and conductor of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods, who emerged in the wake of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1906 to 1908.
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Toronto City Hall
The Toronto City Hall, or New City Hall, is the seat of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the city's most distinctive landmarks.
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Treaty of Fredrikshamn
The Treaty of Fredrikshamn or the Treaty of Hamina (Haminan rauha, Freden i Fredrikshamn) was a peace treaty concluded between Sweden and Russia on 17 September 1809.
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Trivial school (Sweden and Finland)
Trivial schools (trivalskolan, triviaalikoulu) were schools in Sweden and its integrated part Finland from the early 17th century, in Sweden to 1905.
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Troms
Troms (italic; Tromssa) is a county in Northern Norway.
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Turku
Turku (Åbo) is a city on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Southwest Finland.
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Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate, originally known as Ultimate frisbee, is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc (frisbee).
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Umeå
Umeå (South Westrobothnian; Uumaja, Ume Sami: Ubmeje, Upmeje, Ubmi) is a city in north east Sweden.
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University of applied sciences (Finland)
An ammattikorkeakoulu (yrkeshögskola in Swedish, polytechnic or university of applied sciences in English), abbreviated AMK, is a Finnish institution of higher education.
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University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki (Helsingin yliopisto, Helsingfors universitet, Universitas Helsingiensis, abbreviated UH) is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish Åbo) in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo, at that time part of the Swedish Empire.
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University of Vaasa
The University of Vaasa (Vaasan yliopisto, Vasa universitet) is a multidisciplinary, business-oriented university in Vaasa, Finland.
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Vaasa Province
The Province of Vaasa was a province of Finland, established in 1775 when Finland was an integrated part of Sweden from the southern part of Ostrobothnia County and disbanded in 1996.
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Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
Vaasan ammattikorkeakoulu VAMK, University of Applied Sciences (Vaasan ammattikorkeakoulu, Vamk, Vasa yrkeshögskola) is an international higher education institution educating Bachelors of Business Administration, Engineering, Hospitality Management and Social Services as well as Registered Nurses and Public Health Nurses in Finnish, Swedish and English for the demanding needs of the working life.
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Vasa övningsskola
Vasa övningsskola (VÖS) is a Swedish-speaking normal school in Vaasa, Finland.
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Vähäkyrö
Vähäkyrö (Lillkyro) is a former municipality of Finland and an exclave of the city of Vaasa since January 1, 2013.
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Västerbotten
Västerbotten, known in English as West Bothnia or Westrobothnia, is a province (landskap) in the north of Sweden, bordering Ångermanland, Lapland, North Bothnia, and the Gulf of Bothnia.
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Vesa Jokinen
Vesa 'Vesku' Jokinen (born 1970) is the lead singer in Finnish punk rock bands Klamydia, based in Vaasa on the Finnish west coast, and in Kylähullut.
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Viljo Revell
Viljo Gabriel Revell (25 January 1910 – 8 November 1964) was a Finnish architect of the functionalist school.
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Wasa, British Columbia
Wasa is an unincorporated settlement in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, located on the east bank of the Kootenay River to the north of Fort Steele.
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White Guard (Finland)
The White Guard or Civil Guard (lit. protection corps) was a voluntary militia that emerged victorious over the socialist Red Guard as a part of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918.
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Yle
Yleisradio Oy (Finnish), also known as Rundradion (Swedish) or the Finnish Broadcasting Company (English), abbreviated to Yle (pronounced /yle/; previously stylised as YLE before the 2012 corporate rebrand), is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926.
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Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen
Baron Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (birth name Georg Zakarias Forsman, author name Yrjö Koskinen, 10 December 1830 in Vaasa – 13 November 1903 in Helsinki) was a friherre, senator, professor, historian, politician and the chairman of the Finnish Party after Johan Vilhelm Snellman.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaasa
