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The Finnish community for natives and proficient users of the language ----> !suomi@sopuli.xyz

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Due to a quirk of how federation works, you cannot discover communities or magazines through search or on "all", until at least one other user on your instance has manually triggered federation to be "initialized" by searching for that exact community/magazine.

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A man living in the village of Kållby in the Ostrobothnian municipality of Pedersöre in the west of Finland, found 12 kilograms of dynamite in two cars he owned on Thursday last week.

The dynamite had been stored in the cars by an acquaintance of the man, also from Pedersöre.

Tony Rauma, Detective Chief Inspector with the Ostrobothnia Police, confirmed that the two individuals knew each other prior to the incident.

"The suspect had called the owner of the cars to say that he had taken dynamite to the cars for storage. According to his own words, he had done it as a joke," Rauma told Yle.

The owner of the cars did not take it as a joke and called the police.

"In addition to the dynamite, detonators were also confiscated from the cars," said Rauma.

Police had to evacuate nearby buildings because of the large quantity of explosives. A police bomb squad from Seinäjoki removed the dynamite from the cars.

Terrorist act ruled out

The suspect was arrested later that day. He was later released, but is suspected of an explosives offence.

The suspect has admitted the crime to the police, but said he did not intend to blow up the cars. Police have also ruled out any possible terrorist intent.

It is not yet known for sure where the explosives came from, as there is no criminal record in the police register that would match the quantity of dynamite used in the prank.

"However, the suspect has access to a deserted house where the dynamite may have come from," said Rauma.

The explosives offence carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

The case was first reported in local newspaper Österbottens Tidning.

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Hello, all! As the title says, I'll be moving to Finland in a week. I'm an African coming for a bachelor's degree at TUNI. While I've had a lot of advice from TUNI student tutors and articles from different sites, any not-so-known or underrated one you have will be very much appreciated.

Thank you!

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Even though they probably don't cause illness this far north, this is worrying.

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Around 2,000 people are expected at Finn Fest in Duluth, a five-day festival celebrating Finnish culture that features music, film, art and shopping, along with talks on Finland’s recent acceptance into NATO, and even public saunas.

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In contrast to most other post this (I hope) is an apolitical question… where is the best place to get garden furniture? I am seeing everywhere from Prisma to K-Rauta to Clas Olsen stock garden chairs and tables, but I have no idea how to filter out what is going to be overpriced low quality stuff from things that will be sturdy enough to last several seasons.

If anyone has any tips it would be l would be very grateful!

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Despite the recent news Finland is not yet a complete dumpster fire, but an actually beautiful and safe place to visit and enjoy.

For some reason 100 reasons to travel in Finland is targetted only for natives and does not have an English version, but it has more locations to consider if you can navigate a Finnish site.

https://100syyta.fi/

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We are sorry (walop.kapsi.fi)
submitted 2 years ago by Walop@sopuli.xyz to c/finland@sopuli.xyz
 
 

On behalf on the majority that did not vote for this government, I want to apologize. We are not happy either and will try to do better next time.

Meanwhile enjoy this preview picture of a Fazer chocolate chocolate bar with custom text on it. I can not afford to actually send you one.

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What finnish words sound funny or mean something else in your native language?

English speakers always have hard time when "pussi" is mentioned 😂

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Another Reddit Refuge newly arrived. Is this where all the cool kids are hanging out?

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Adding a language requirement to permanent residency and extending the citizenship residence requirement to eight years seems like a great way to ensure highly paid and highly educated professionals from abroad find somewhere else to live.

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