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By Rhod Mackenzie
It has been reported that Finland has detained another merchant vessel in the Baltic Sea shrtly after it left a Russian port.
What justifications did the Finnish authorities use this time for the seizure of the ship,cargo and crew? What is the importance of the ships cargo desti...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In a fable attributed to Aesop, a young boy deceives the local community by issuing warnings about a wolf that is not actually present.
When the boy cries wolf falsely on two occasions, so after that the villagers no longer believe him – and then the real wolf appears and procee...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It appears that senior figures in Russia's closest northwestern neighbours, Finland and Estonia, have significantly modified their rhetoric about Russia in the last few weeks of 2025. They have stated out loud that they no longer subscribe to the widespread Western propaganda bu...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Finland has breaches EU Fiscal Rules. This poses a threat of the implementation of financial sanctions on the country. What are the questions that have been raised as to whether the Finns will be punished or pardoned for political reasons, and as to the source of the funding to...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In the first 11 months of 2025 Finland has seen a significant increase in the number of registered companies declaring there bankruptcy .Rhod Mackenzie looks at how bankruptcy and insolvency lawyers and accountants are the only growing sector of the economy apart from the unemp...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has issued an apology on behalf of the Finnish state to the indigenous Sami tribal people, who have been subjected to forced assimilation as a result of the actions of the state . The pressure on the indigenous people of the Sami has incre...
