Watch: Santa s sleighs depart from northern Finland
The beginning of the magical journey from the Korvatunturi fell in Lapland has become an annual broadcasting tradition.
Santa Claus has officially begun his gift-giving trip around the world from his workshop on the Lapland fell of Korvatunturi in northern Finland, and Yle’s cameras were there to capture his departure.
Yle first broadcast Santa setting off on his sleigh in 1965, and broadcasting the beginning of the journey has become an annual tradition since the 1980s, which the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) then spreads throughout its public service network.
In addition to European broadcasters, the video of Santa’s departure has been picked up in past years by TV channels all across the globe, from Japan to the USA.
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Typically you would not put Eurovision and the United States in the same sentence. But more recently there are greater connections forming between with the United States of America and the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2016 the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast live in the United States for the first time on Logo TV. The 2016 Contest featured US singer Justin Timberlake as a special guest who performed his hits Rock Your Body and Can t Stop the Feeling! . More recently the queen of pop, Madonna, was a guest performer at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.
19 Dec 2020 in 12:00 EurActiv
The EU prestige suffered immensely as a consequence of its absence from any attempt to manage the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, write Borut Grgic and Bernhard Knoll-Tudor. As Borut Grgic, founder of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Ljubljana and the director of the transCaspian Project, and Bernhard Knoll-Tudor, adjunct professor (international law) at the Hertie School in Berlin and directs its Executive Education Department, write in an article published by
EurActiv, the five-week-long war in the South Caucasus between Armenia and Azerbaijan for control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts has ended in a Russia-brokered ceasefire. President Putin has managed to score yet another victory in the region, establishing a foothold, this time on the border with Iran.
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A still image taken from a handout video footage made available 9 November 2020 on the official website of the Azerbaijan s Defence Ministry shows view of Shusha fortress in the town of Shushi (another spelling Shusha) after the Azerbaijani Army took the town under its control, in Nagorno-Karabakh. [Handout photo/EPA/EFE]