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After securing 64 seats in last week's parliamentary election, the Scottish National Party (SNP) has focused its attention once again on an independence vote. Despite falling short of a majority themselves, the SNP insisted it will push on with another referendum with the support of the Greens. In her 2021 election manifesto, party leader Nicola Sturgeon stated that independence could foster stronger ties "in the rest of the UK and Europe". And barely hours after Sturgeon had celebrated her party's gains, one Finnish MP had suggested those ties could be found in northern Europe. Mikko Kärnä...

Prosecutor: 'Drunk' suspect tried to attack ex-foreign minister Soini The incident occurred while Timo Soini was campaigning for his new Blue Reform party at a farmers' market in Vantaa. The defendant sitting in court. Image: Tuomas Rimpiläinen The trail began on Monday in Eastern Uusimaa District Court of a man accused of attempting to attack former Finns Party leader Timo Soini at a farmer's market in Vantaa in March 2019. According to the prosecutor in the case, the defendant was drunk at the time of the suspected attack, when he shouted "traitor" before attempting to strike Soini with a...

After serving five terms totalling 20 years on the local council in Espoo, Timo Soini has announced that he will leave municipal politics. The former Finns Party leader and ex-Foreign Minister wrote on his blog on Thursday that he will not run for office in April's municipal elections. "All good things come to an end," he wrote. The veteran politician expressed concern about whether his hometown district of Iiveniemi will have its own representative on the municipal council after the April election. "Residents of small suburbs should vote for candidates of small suburbs. Self-representation...

Arctic Future: Finland Pleads, Russia Insists Russian drifting ice station “North Pole – 2015”. Photo by: Artyom Geodakyan/TASS The Head of the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs appealed to the global community to revise the status of the Arctic in international law Илья Савин 3 мин During a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini made a statement that can be considered worrisome by the Russian authorities. In his opinion, existing international norms that regulate navigation, fish...