HELSINGIN SANOMAT - International Edition

Weekly Articles
Week 36: Toeing the line no more?; Niinistö lauds "budget for a secure future"; "New technology expands the musical horizon"; Scene: Bali, the evening after East Timor
Week 37: Cancer specialist reports GE cigarettes test-marketed in Finland; Ante-post favourite Elisabeth Rehn steps up for Presidential race; The "Second Mouse" Approach; Now showing: Theatre of Cruelty; (No shortage of) Life in a Tallinn apartment block; Finnish authors tread uphill path to the Gates of (Sw)Eden; A Bad Play; Markets anticipating hugely improved profits from Finnish companies; Savoy maintains position as Helsinki's premier eatery; EU Commission raps Finland on gender gap in jobs
Week 38: DNA testing to resolve the fate of "Larry Thorne"; Will the last Balt please turn out the light?; The Way We War; In search of buried treasure - where is the Valamo gold?; Sauli Niinistö - respected yes, but not much loved; The lift's in order, but for how long?; (Self-) Censoring a classic - Orwell's 1984 re-issued in uncut translation; Fear (and some loathing) in Moscow; ALKO finally says "That will do nicely, sir"; Job vacancies at record high in Helsinki; New Presidential role still unclear - less outright power, but more prestige?; Presidents to get their own Pensions Act; "New Media" companies' turnover soon to exceed FIM 1 billion
Week 39: "Speak Savvoo and carry a big portfolio" - Erkki Liikanen, Finland's EU Commissioner; Amazon Basin destruction goes on unchecked; Finnish Chamber Opera celebrates ten years with Menotti's The Medium; Annus horribilis for Schröder's Third Way; Senior Student travels to school and the world; Genocide - going out of style?; The Euro - part of the great tradition?; Finnish Conservatives have only themselves to blame; Europeans, you are (still) what you eat; Are Finnish investors less smart than their foreign counterparts?
Week 40: Our man in Seattle - Kimmo Sasi dons his pragmatic armour for WTO meeting; Lights, action & camera in the Grand Duchy; High rents and low interest rates bring out the buyers; Child refugees do not always need psychiatric help; Engineer turned musical landlady turns 70; How to understand an inscrutable 50-year-old with a 5000-year history?; TV ads: counting the cost of competing with the big boys; Half of Finland's EU meetings have come and gone - what's left behind?; Playing a Chechen hand with Kosovo cards; A hopeless struggle against the powers-that-be; Another night on Misha's patio
Week 41: Remembering the Kämp press room and the Winter War; "Let us now praise famous (wo)men..."; Teemu Tainio joins Finland's soccer-playing Foreign Legion; Europanto - Könnte das la lingua majeure for Europa para the nouvelle millennium sein?; A Farewell to Ludviginkatu; The mechanical clock and the rat-race; Tokaimura nuclear neighbours fear cancer and their livelihood; Slovakian gypsies disillusioned with Nordic Shangri-La; The Pasta Invasion, or "Are you putting ketchup on that?"; Monets make the (film) world go round; Jumbo prompts talk of supermarket price-war
Week 42: The Presidential Women: birds of a feather, or birds-of-many-colours?; Smiert Spionem - at the Lenin Museum; Quarrel in Lithuania over Communist Disneyland; Human rights exemptions?; Slap on the wrist for occupational safety offences; An absurd Kosovo comparison; Breaking the mould of inter-state relations
Week 43: Russians have learnt lessons of old mistakes - and from NATO; Err... hang on... It was I and F, small letters, with three dots, yes?; Putin gives the EU the run-around; The Wild East begins just across the border; Whole lotta shakin' n' quakin' going on; Prosecutor General Skuratov demands that Yeltsin respond to charges; Part of a historical tragedy; Jouko K. Leskinen - financial services flyer; Björkboda village fights for its right to a weekly flutter; Kalevala re-translated into Swedish; The Attack - a symbol of independence for 100 years
Week 44: Developing the EU's common foreign and security policy in the post-Kosovo climate; Finland should concentrate on decision-making systems; Joe's Jailhouse Rock, AZ; Sweet dreams of preventive deterrence; World Champion with a clear conscience; Swedish editors demand tough line on neo-Nazis; After the fall, or what to do in Lemmenjoki before winter comes; The Tree that Grows to Heaven; Russian lawyer assists harassed Finnish tourists; The young are prematurely burned out at work; I'm just popping across the border for a loaf of bread...; Estonian presidential race off to an early start
Week 45: First steps on the presidential campaign trail; The seven runners in the presidential race; Kuisma: Nato membership is preparation for the worst; You can't say that about us...; Intervention can lead to a long peaceful occupation, as in Bosnia; Plight of Chechen refugees leaves Russians unmoved; Finlandia - Jean Sibelius's "protest song" marks up 100 years; Laws on genetic resources of rain-forests are still in their infancy; The post-hunt banquet: the feast of the season; Mammoth bones determine the length of the Ice Age; A unique sight: "Granny" at the controls of a mobile crane
Week 46: The decline and fall of Russia's space programme - and Finland's avoidance of cosmonaut overtures; Two campaign start-ups and a hiccup; A Bluffer's Guide to Kalevala in 12 paragraphs; Don Rosa's mighty ducks in Kalevala, the Land of Heroes; A dimension without form, and void?; How a Singapore investor took an antique Estonian mill and put it to work; Drugs and extending the long arm of the law; Russian roubles with Mao's face on them; Eero Heinonen completes Sibelius piano recordings; Sports clubs activate the masses; Oulu councillors learn that friendship tours are tough going
Week 47: Fleeing the Russian bombs; WTO membership brings hopes of political relaxations in China; Tackling the problem of rough play in junior hockey; An American Peace in Istanbul; Jarno Saarinen (1945-1973), Finland's first and only Road Racing World Champion; Studies in the United States open new horizons; Ethnic divide in Estonia leaves students on opposite sides over Chechnya; The Lessons of Srebrenica; Increasing air traffic pollutes the atmosphere; The export fitter studies with bag packed and ready
Week 48: Moscow took threat of Finland seriously in run-up to Winter War; How Niels Tingleff came to Finland's assistance 60 years ago; Rymy-Eetu - Finland's comic-book Rambo from the '40s; UN does not duck blame on Srebrenica errors; Rich men, poor men, beggarmen, thieves and sports stars - all want a place in the Duma; Hakalehto: Non-alignment is in our best interests; “Holy Hermione, Robin - they're bulldozing the Batcave!”; Spouse Power, anyone?; Corruption and demonstrations beset China's dam project; Roaches and watery porridge; The coffee shop invasion; Drug bust not cause for alarm in Loimaa
Week 49: Uosukainen: "It is never wise to tie one's hands"; Aho: "Finland should not ally itself militarily"; Halonen: "Joining NATO is not simply a Finnish matter"; Hautala: "A salaried army for the EU is a possibility"; "The Finnish maiden should lead instead suffering herself to be led"; "Artillery shell in the garden shed, live grenade in the writing-desk..." All in a day's work for a Finnish policeman; CNN would have got great footage from the Winter War; That Euro-beat at the top of the charts; Can a dissertation be defamatory?; Japanese youth in an unprecedented career slump; Russia looks to its history for direction; What we are doing...
Week 50: Fetching the Finlandia - Kristina Carlson's make-over from journalist to writer; The Latvian Roma want to be an example to the rest of Europe; Possession of nail clippers can result in expulsion from US schools; Paanajärvi is genuine and historic; Yeti again - in search of China's big-footed Yeren; To NATO or NOT to... A Muffled Song-Contest
Week 51: Watching Sosnovyi Bor on New Year's Eve; Aho took Niinistö's chair; It's a long way to Grozny (from Petersburg); Eismont witnessed Russian bodies in Grozny; Finland crosses the news threshold, conference centres cross their fingers and hope; No holds barred in Estonian dock battle; No prizes for guessing Finnish Sports Hero of the Century; Finnish colours will inevitably fade in Nokia; Anfield's Big Friendly (Finnish) Giant at the Back; THE TOP 100 SPORTSMEN AND SPORTSWOMEN OF THE CENTURY; Candidates relatively wealthy and earning well; Long queues, expensive drinks; Richmond fights crime with harsh sentences; The Russians are Coming - and Lappeenranta rubs its hands; Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance - Then and Now; Dad's a playboy, mum's a baby machine, and the car's a BMW; Kaija Saariaho's Prisma - a door into the world of a colourist composer; One or two things to do over Christmas apart from eating and drinking to excess
Week 1: Clinton tries to polish his CV through foreign policy; Ivan and Ivana sure know how to party, but their skiing is something else; What the posters say about the candidates; One last leap into cold water; Soldiers close to the new Kremlin leader's heart; From Kabul to Grozny in 20 years; Putin's path is so far only lined with bodies; There were parks in Grozny, before the war; Arska, entering his third century and NOT "growing old gracefully"
Week 2: Not exactly better than the Caribbean; Putin knows the Finns well enough, but do any of us really know him?; The candidates and the election process; UN: Europe's declining populations need millions of immigrants; Fertility figures do not alarm EU, but the problem is acknowledged; The Eco-Challenge: Adventures at the ends of the earth; Esko Aho: gambler and shrewd tactician; Tarja Halonen: the constant hurry of the welfare lady; Elisabeth Rehn: Hard-boiled cotton wool and nobody's stooge; Riitta Uosukainen: Radiance on legs and a spiritual leader; Ahtisaari makes last speech abroad as President: "We must not overlook Russia"; Gustavsburg was supposed to be Sweden's outpost in Germany; Duty free delicacies available through the internet
Week 3: No Lenin please, we're Finnish; Seeding a personality cult in the West; "Honour rooted in dishonour stood"; Taking on the world without complexes: an interview with the winner of this year's Non-Fiction Finlandia Prize; Samsul Belu has kabal - bullets cannot harm him; Ante-post favourite pressures on Halonen's shoulders; Russia in pursuit of the past; Jean Sibelius and two moments of inspiration; Municipal affairs in Istanbul, a car crash in Ankara? No thanks!; Japanese tea ceremony in the midst of snowy Ranua; A journey into steam baths on three continents
Week 4: Top news of the week; Sex from Sortavala - Finland and the Karelian Pattaya; Shares soar - flying in the face of the textbooks; Sweden and Norway - Tales of sibling rivalry, pure envy, and Schadenfreude; Mäkinen & Mäkinen - Kings of the Monte; Halonen is going to be hard to beat; Lips moving, saying nothing; Chicago tears down its slums, but some want to stay; A war photographer who loved peace; Estonian street children depict their lives on film; Norway still smarts from the pain of the Union; Okinawa remains a pawn in the superpower game
Week 5: Top news of the week; Oil prices fuel inflation in industrialised countries; Wage-earners fear the risks of setting up in business; "Way to go, Third Way": Davos looks different this year; Money - the new imperialist; Forget Y2k, the big one is going to be Y2T; The left laughs long and hard up its sleeve; HELSINGIN SANOMAT in Chechnya: Russian blockade of Grozny by no means secure; Children in Viipuri attest to sex trips by Finns; Our neighbours the Pygmies; Stockholm's Finnish Institute is in trouble
Week 6: Top news of the week; How to nurture a new Nokia?; Haider - A painful cure for a difficult disease; Haider made the FPÖ into Austria's largest workers' & youth party; HEX trading centred on just a handful of stocks; Fishfarmer Wang creates a village in the sea; Election breakdown: Halonen takes the cities, Aho the rural areas; “A President for all Finns”; Friend to the poor, but don't catch Tarja Halonen on a bad day; Finland's first female President
Week 7: Top news of the week; Queen of Hearts - Interview with a President-Elect; Vladimir Putin: Russia deserves a better future; Archaeologists wonder: did the Romans reach America before Columbus?; Small EU countries under pressure; Moments to savour as Karita Mattila makes a long-overdue appearance at the National Opera; Artists react over Austria; Racial strife between immigrants and the black population in New York City; Three towns in Northern Karelia get their own Community Net; Centre-right parties in vain attempt to find joint presidential candidate
Week 8: Top news of the week; In praise of awkward questions; “No more Latin, no more French...; An empty chair at the top; Cyanide Diary - four days on a dead river; Big forest companies buy control cheap; Monitors, wipe the names from the blackboard!; Palmettomorphosis - How a Finnish Young Conservative would be practically a card-carrying South Carolina Communist; Finland among last on EU's list to be questioned about Austria; Finnish saws heard buzzing in French forests; President's prize goes to Nokia, Deltamarin and Honkarakenne; Pertti Voutilainen: foreign banks coming in strength; Product development secret of Honkarakenne success; Banks offered new challenges to one-company man
Week 9: Top news of the week; A Tale of Nine Cities in cyberspace; Jarmo Kekäläinen - finding new stars for the NHL; Russia's long and winding road; Baby Brooklyn's stomach 'flu valued at FIM 900 million; There are only approximately 81 people in Shuimoping; Pictures speak a bleak language; Goal of Finnish wartime propaganda: make the people believe in a miracle; Finland doesn't quite hate Fred Phelps; Two corporate paths to the same end; San Francisco turns against its homeless; Café9 brings cybercafés to seven cities
Week 10: Top news of the week; Ahtisaari's new tasks reflect changing times; Foreign policy marching-order under the new Constitution; Finns on ice - in the Arizona desert; Finland has a new President AND a new Constitution; Halonen and Lipponen agree on foreign policy administration; Islamic Iran isn't quite what it used to be; The paper industry at the top of the wage ladder; That Väinö, he just keeps on singing; Far is a really long way to go; A socialist dog, nuclear testing and other interesting table talk
Week 11: Top news of the week; KFOR FinnBat gets Albanians and Serbs to talk; The population of Helsinki may grow to 600,000; Disabled war veterans do it one more time in the final winter games; Putting roads into Mozambique, on the double; Finns clear mines in Mozambique; Hunger (like rust) does not sleep; The Raate Road revisited, and re-enacted; Finnish volunteers fought in Chechnya in 1942; Aston Villa's big blond goalkeeper; Lahti's flagship of wooden architecture at the old harbour; A different trip to Chile; The Jashari clan pays respect to its dead heroes
Week 12: Top news of the week; Esko Aho wants out of the drudgery of the political round; Russian plans to import nuclear waste still have a long way to go; There's more than just Sonera out there, you know; The Purple Gang, together until 2003; A pit & paddock epiphany; Concerts are bringing up a deaf generation; Helsinki shines Northern Lights in a Washington Metro tunnel; "Purification of memory" is nothing new to the Polish Pope; Not enough care for the mentally distressed in Kosovo
Week 13: Top news of the week; Decibel Størm: Oslo's impending holy war of sound; The socially unbearable lightness of being retired; Ivan's Kaleidoscope of Exciting Artefacts; A hard day's night in H691; Sweden wants Tornio River as part of Natura programme; Ice cream against NATO; Driving where the green ants dream; Four votes for Vladimir Putin; Arctic Circle's Santapark driven into economic crisis; elves get pink slips; Prime Minister Laar boasts of Estonia's reforms; Christians in a tight spot in the Middle East
Week 14: Top news of the week; Max Jakobson: An eminence, but not grey; Latte and Web, please; Shouting for Godot: Muslims and unbelievers alike get permits in Norway's capital; Keeping the wolf from the door; Empowering the political Messiah; Finland prepares for the Putin era; The Åland Islands, a good place for a writer; The dinosaurs face off; Car sharing feasible even for businesses; Espoo wants an international school; Small core sets NGO agendas
Week 15: Top news of the week; Myopia at the top; Fond farewell to the phone-box?; Rape: sex or violence?; Villa Tammekann - a piece of Aalto in Tartu; Private tragedy - or common armchair-theatre property?; Big Boom in free internet music; Sonera to give up its telephone networks?; The truth, or at least close enough; The American dream turns sour for smuggled Chinese
Week 16: Top news of the week; The difference between the dug-out and the mahogany table; The lineman's work is nearly done; Finland's rust belt left behind; Finland's Russian speakers keep to go themselves; Oil price hike pushes inflation over 3% mark; Niinistö proposed as head of European Reconstruction Bank; If Niinistö were to go to the bank; Stasi archives shake Germany again; Sailas' web site brings flood of cost-cutting suggestions; Clearcutting in Fennoscandia's largest fir stand; No access for foreigners
Week 17: Top news of the week; Donors threaten aid cuts to promote Third World democracy; Reality and official truths far apart in Vietnam; Against the wind: cyclist Pia Sundstedt looks towards Sydney; Applicant countries far from EU standards of living; Aftermath of 'flu outbreak raises number of deaths in January and March; Captain Trung “ended” the war - now he helps tourists in Vietnam; Kosovo operation proves difficult and slow for West; Vola is fun; Dade County Banana Republic loses this round; Assistant coach Alpo Suhonen's quiet revolution in Toronto; Who wants a mobile multi-purpose machine?; A humble apology, or "To go be or not to go be"
Week 18: Top news of the week; “Somebody had to write an eighth symphony”; “Raise shields, Mr Spock!”; Anyone seen Ahtisaari?; A belated explanation why we did not appear on Monday...; The ESP of ISPs - or “How the Rytsölä Brothers got Lamborghinis, loadsamoney, and survived an ambush at the Workers' Saloon”; Crafty reporter dons veil and wins jackpot in Room 223; In Sortavala only one baby in three is born healthy; The EU's Northern Dimension is still lacking in substance; The USA and Vietnam search for their lost boys, each in their own way; Toothbrushes - soon you'll need a loan to buy one
Week 19: Top news of the week; Finland's first horseless carriage arrived in Turku 100 years ago; Freedom of expression in Turkey: May a pigeon crap on Atatürk's statue?; If you go down to the (Finnish) woods today...; Attempts made to prevent marginalization in Helsinki; Jorma Ollila likes difficult sports; The Santas of the business world meet with Finnish corporations; America's Ethiopia struggles against poverty; Helvi Sipilä at 85 - a strong-willed woman marks the way; Malaysian dream holiday turns into nightmare; It pays to kidnap a European; Love in international politics
Week 20: Top news of the week; Two foreign policy lines; Kalevala - Land of Heroes... or should that be Mummy's Boys?; Sue 'Em All? Metallica plays, but who gets the money?; Finland and foreign workers - red carpet treatment for some; Notes from the Philippine jungle - a hostage account; Victims identify with captors for their own security; Russia rehabilitates the Great Victory; PM Stoltenberg wants Norway to be part of European crisis management; A savings account doesn't reward its owner anymore; "If the furniture turns out ugly, everything is ruined"; Employment of foreigners hampered by language barriers and attitudes; Finland has fewer valuable old-growth forests than believed
Week 21: Top news of the week; New Russia and Old Russia; Finland is already militarily close to NATO; Chinese lawyer earns 'sainthood' defending mutilated factory workers; Odes to a Batcave - In Memoriam Lepakko; Tervo, Taiwan, and the common fate of the planet; A death in the (virtual) family; Finland's white spot; Almost a chat with the emperor; Foreign cab drivers in Helsinki; Fast growth for Nokia deep in the heart of Texas; ECB's Duisenberg to Helsingin Sanomat: “I'll do all I can for the euro”; Finland has fewer valuable old-growth forests than believed