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Talvisota: Icy Hell (Russian "Talvisota: Ледяной ад") is a real-time tactics and educational computer game, developed by the international developer group Blitzfront Game Studio and is based on the events of the Winter War (Finnish: talvisota) conflict of 1939–1940 between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Finnish Immigration Service (abbreviated Migri, [1] Swedish: Migrationsverket, Finnish: Maahanmuuttovirasto) is an agency under the Ministry of the Interior that implements Finland's immigration policy and provides information services to support political decision-making as well as national and international cooperation. [2]
The official languages are Finnish and Swedish; 84.9 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. [1] [11] Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. [12] [13]
Finland closed all crossings on its 1,340 km (830 mile) border with Russia late last year amid a growing number of arrivals who lacked valid documents to enter the European Union. Helsinki accuses ...
The first government of independent Finland. Finnish nationalism started growing in the 19th century alongside European nationalist movements. [1] Runeberg's The Tales of Ensign Stål and Lönnrot's Kalevala formed a basis for the nation's cultural identity. World War I and internal problems caused a revolution in Russia in 1917. [2]
Åland (/ ˈ ɔː l ə n d / AW-lənd, Swedish: ⓘ; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland.Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area (1,580 km 2 or 610 sq mi) and population (30,541), constituting 0.51% of Finland's land area and 0.54% of its population.
Finland's first immigrants arrived in the years 1917–1922, thousands of Russians escaped to Finland as a result of the Russian Revolution. Many of them died in the Finnish Civil War . In the beginning of 1919, statistics showed there were 15,457 Russians in Finland, however the actual number was likely higher.
[1] Both the Rock, Paper, Shotgun article and Eurogamer's Martin Robinson compared the game's difficulty curve to Dark Souls. [10] My Summer Car has also received a number of awards and honors from the Finnish gaming community. At the 2017 Finnish Game Awards , the game won the People's Choice Game of the Year 2016 "Kyöpelit" award. [11]