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“The US is is 24th in the world in the happiness rankings. Not bad. But Denmark is number two (after Finland). On a scale of 1 to 100, Freedom House ranks Denmark 97 and the US 84 on freedom — and the US will drop a great deal this year.”
—Timothy Snyder
#usa vs #denmark & #finland


Denmark and Finland issue travel warnings for transgender visitors to the United States https://www.byteseu.com/867925/ #Finland
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Thousands in Finland call for Israel boycott at Eurovision https://www.byteseu.com/860769/ #ban #Boycott #EurovisionSongContest #Finland #Israel
Thousands in Finland call for Israel boycott at Eurovision


Thousands in Finland demand boycott of Israel in Eurovision https://www.byteseu.com/859416/ #Boycott #demand #eurovision #Finland #in #Israel #of #thousands
Thousands in Finland demand boycott of Israel in Eurovision


"A new section has been added under Denmark's visa rules for entry into the United States. It states that when applying for a U.S. visa, there are only two gender options available, male or female.

If your passport has the gender designation X, or if you have changed your gender, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises contacting the American embassy before traveling for guidance on how to proceed.

The change was made after LGBT+ Denmark contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, requesting an update to the travel advice, per RadioIIII.

Meanwhile in Finland, the advisory notes that if the gender on an applicant's passport differs from the gender confirmed at birth, U.S. authorities may deny entry. It's recommended to check the entry requirements with U.S. authorities in advance."

https://www.newsweek.com/denmark-issues-travel-warning-us-2048508

#USA #Finland #Denmark #LGBT #Trump


Ukraine Daily summary - Wednesday, March 19 2025


Wednesday, March 19

Russia’s war against Ukraine


an apartment building at night with smoke coming out of the window

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the plenary session of Russia Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, March 18, 2025, in Moscow, Russia. Putin spoke prior to his telephone call with U.S. President Donald Trump. (Contributor/Getty Images)

Trump-Putin call: Russia agrees to 30-day pause of energy infrastructure strikes. "Vladimir Putin responded positively to this initiative and immediately gave the appropriate command to the Russian military," the Kremlin said.

Kremlin demands halt to foreign military aid**, intelligence to Ukraine as condition for avoiding war escalation.** The Kremlin has demanded a complete cessation of foreign military aid and intelligence to Ukraine as a "key condition for avoiding an escalation of the war," according to a statement released on March 18.

Kyiv supports energy sector ceasefire**, expects military aid to continue, Zelensky says.** "We will support such a proposal, but we're very interested in the details," Zelensky said after the Trump-Putin call.

US announces another round of negotiations in Middle East on war in Ukraine. "This conflict should never have started and should have been ended long ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts," the White House's statement read.

'I don't want us to be on Putin's menu' — Zelensky says negotiations must include Ukraine. "We are an independent state. Without us, I think it's wrong to negotiate," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 18.

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Putin didn't mention military aid in phone call, Trump says. Trump also said it was "a great call" and that the U.S. hopes to expand trade with Russia, including deals on "very big forms of rare earth."

Ukraine withdraws from one front-line sector in Donetsk Oblast, commander says. "This allowed us not only to save our soldiers, but also to improve our defense. (Russia) is suffering losses, and we can act more effectively," Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev said.

Ukrainian forces attempted to enter Belgorod Oblast**, repelled by Russian forces, Russia claims.** The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on March 18 that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to enter Russia's Belgorod Oblast but were repelled by the Russian military.

Zelensky arrives in Finland for official visit to discuss security and strengthen ties. President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska arrived in Finland for an official visit on March 18. The plane carrying the couple landed at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in the afternoon.

Russian energy giant Gazprom suffers $13.1 billion loss in 2024. Gazprom's losses averaged $251 million per week, $35 million per day, or $1.4 million per hour. While the company's total revenue increased by 11% and its gas revenue by 14%, it still ended the year with a sales loss of 192 billion rubles ($2.3 billion).

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Meet the Ukrainian fashion brand that's making heritage trendy

Natalia Kamenska had grown tired of a fashion industry she felt was too focused on mass production and commercial interests, rather than creativity. While in the Carpathian mountains, Kamenska encountered a “gunia,” a traditional western Ukrainian shag fur coat that weighs around six kilos (13 pounds).

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Polish right takes hard line on Ukraine ahead of presidential vote

With the Polish presidential elections just two months away, two of the country's leading right-wing candidates have become increasingly antagonistic toward Ukraine and its leadership. Both men have made headlines by public spats with Ukrainian officials and denounced Kyiv as ungrateful for Polish aid.

Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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Ukraine war latest: Putin, Trump hold 1.5-hour call, discuss ceasefire in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to a 30-day pause of energy infrastructure strikes during a call with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a readout of the call issued by the Kremlin on March 18.

Photo: Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

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Human cost of Russia’s war


2 killed, 13 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 63 of the 137 Russian attack and decoy drones overnight over 12 oblasts, the Air Force said. Sixty-four decoy drones reportedly disappeared from radars without causing damage.

General Staff: Russia has lost 897,010 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,560 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

International response


UK reportedly hopes US drones, satellites will help monitor Ukraine ceasefire. The U.S. military has 247 military satellites and thousands of commercial satellites, providing an "unrivaled picture" of eastern Ukraine that European forces would struggle to replicate, the Times wrote.

UK, EU to discuss confiscating Russian assets ahead of Ukraine peace talks, Bloomberg reports. Negotiations will focus on establishing the legal and financial framework to seize Russian assets, despite opposition from some EU member states, particularly Belgium and Germany.

Italy, Spain hesitant on EU's $43 billion military aid to Ukraine plan. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said the proposal needed further discussion and that Italy was awaiting the outcome of the upcoming call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump boasts of saving 'surrounded' Ukrainian soldiers despite Kyiv denying encirclement in Kursk Oblast. U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on March 17 that he took an unspecified action to save "surrounded" Ukrainian soldiers, apparently referring to his earlier and unsubstantiated claims of Kyiv's troops being encircled in Russia's Kursk Oblast.

Trump's aid cuts threaten supply of HIV treatments to Ukraine**, 7 more countries, WHO warns.** The World Health Organization warned that Kenya, Haiti, Lesotho, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Ukraine could run out of critical antiretroviral drugs in the coming months.

Russian negotiator says he expects talks with Musk on space, tech. Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said he expects Russia to hold talks with U.S. billionaire and President Donald Trump's ally, Elon Musk, in the near future, the pro-state news agency RBK reported on March 18.

In other news


Notorious judge dismissed amid accusations of criminal activity, power grab. Judge Pavlo Vovk was held responsible for "committing a significant disciplinary offense, gross or systematic neglect of duties that is incompatible with the status of a judge or revealed his incompatibility with the position he holds."

France to deploy fighter jets with nuclear warheads on German border by 2035, Macron says. France will deploy Rafale fighter jets equipped with supersonic nuclear warheads along its border with Germany in 2035, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on March 18 at the Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase, according to BFMTV.

Telegram CEO Durov returns to Dubai amid French investigation. Pavel Durov, Telegram's Russian-born founder and CEO, said that the investigating judges allowed him to depart even though the probe is ongoing.

Poland, Baltics to withdraw from anti-personnel mine ban treaty. The defense ministers of the four nations argued that the security situation in the region has "fundamentally deteriorated" and that military threats to NATO member states bordering Russia and Belarus have "significantly increased."

EU approves over $2 billion in economic support for Moldova. The Reform and Growth Facility, which includes 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in low-interest loans and 385 million euros ($420 million) in grants, will cover the period of 2025-2027 and is part of the EU's long-term Moldova Growth Plan.

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Continuing to share favourite images from my 30+ year photographic career. Now featuring Finland.
Lighthouse and pilot house at Kobba Klintar on the approach to Mariehamm in the Åland Islands. (There’s now a café there and I’d love to visit.)
#photography #landscape #Finland #sea #skerries #lighthouse #Mariehamm #AlandIslands
View over small islands or skerries of pinkish rock in a deep-blue sea. A lighthouse stands on a distant rock and nearer to the camera a single white house with light blue hipped roof sits on a slightly larger island.


Finland’s MTV to be sold to Norwegian media company Schibsted Media https://www.byteseu.com/779558/ #commercial #company #Finland #Finnish #Finns #independent #journalism #Media #MTV #nordics #Norway #sale #Schibsted #Sweden #Television #Telia
The MTV logo in the media company’s facilities in Helsinki on 25 February 2025.


https://www.europesays.com/1871434/ Vain yksi mies pitää Susijengiä pystyssä #24h #finland #Joukkoviestintä #Kustantamo #LiikuntaJaUrheilu #Media(Viestintä) #Sanomalehdet #Suomi #uutiset
Vain yksi mies pitää Susijengiä pystyssä


https://www.europesays.com/1859948/ Leijonan luolan sijoittaja kavahtaa yrittäjän puheita – Vetäytyy välittömästi hankkeesta #24h #finland #Joukkoviestintä #Media(Viestintä) #SähköinenMedia #Suomi #TvJaElokuvat #TvOhjelmat #uutiset
Leijonan luolan sijoittaja kavahtaa yrittäjän puheita – Vetäytyy välittömästi hankkeesta


https://www.europesays.com/1838900/ Denmark, Finland and Singapore top list of least corrupt nations while South Sudan is the worst and US slides down rankings with global corruption levels ‘alarmingly high’ #dailymail #Danmark #denmark #finland #News #Singapore #Syria
Last year's top-ranked country, Denmark, remained at the top this year though its CPI score stayed the same at 88/100 (File image of Copenhagen, Denmark)


Heritages of Hunger
"Een hongersnood is zo vergeten, zelfs een in Nederland"

https://www.radboudrecharge.nl/nl/artikel/een-hongersnood-is-zo-vergeten-zelfs-een-in-nederland #NWA #GreatFamine #Holodomor #Finland #Gaza #Sudan #Yemen


https://www.europesays.com/1802006/ Study: Jobseekers with foreign names receive fewer employment opportunities #finland
Study: Jobseekers with foreign names receive fewer employment opportunities


The #eXit wave of #universities continues in northern #Europe, in #Finland.

After the university of Oulu also the university of #Helsinki will stop communicating via X.

“X no longer serves the purpose for which we have used it: disseminating the University’s communications content to our desired target groups. ..,” says Director of Communications Taina Kyllönen.

“We don’t want to promote a conflict-seeking conversational culture, nor do we wish to expose our #researchers to offensive behaviour through our own posts,” says Kyllönen.

https://studies.helsinki.fi/instructions/news/university-give-x-formerly-twitter-end-january

#Unis4Mastodon


#introduction
Hi! I’m a Finnish folk-bluegrass musician and singer-songwriter, here to share my music and information about upcoming gigs, and to find interesting and hopefully even inspiring accounts to follow. 🎼

#music #acoustic #FolkMusic #bluegrass #finnish #finnishfolk #nordicfolk #countrymusic #finland #suomi #finlandia #musiikki #musadontti #akustinen #singer #singersongwriter #grassroots #muusikko #musician #laulaja


A month ago, I had the opportunity to go on a train trip through beautiful 🇫🇮 #Finland. So it is time to post my updated Finland 🚂 transit diagram of 2025. It shows all #VR and HSL services. Have fun browsing it.

https://larstransportmaps.com//railway-services-in-finland-2025/
Finland transit diagram showing the train services
A narrow platform in the middle, a green VR Vectron pulls an Intercity train to the front of the picture on the left, a double-decker VR Intercity train on the right, snow covers the platforms and the tracks


The Joy of Catching a Fish! 🐟✨
This photo was taken at Halistenkoski in Turku, where large numbers of small fish occasionally swim upstream. During these times, the gulls have a feast, and you can see plenty of them fishing above the rushing waters of the rapids. The surrounding area is a beautiful cultural landscape, and it’s wonderful that you can enjoy nature so close to the city—even though this environment is heavily shaped by human influence. Still, I find it much more diverse than, for example, commercial forests dominated by monocultures. However, the noise from passing cars can be unpleasant, especially during rush hours when people are commuting to and from work.
#Photography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #Birds #Luonto #Luontokuvaus #Linnut #Turku #Finland
A black-headed gull flying above the rushing waters of the rapids. The gull has a fish it caught in its beak.


Since I started as a photographer, I have always loved silhouettes, the low light of the evening or morning. I love these atmospheres. During a recent trip to Finland, I had the immense privilege of meeting this mother bear just before nightfall. For me, it was such an unforgettable moment.

How I did this photo ? Canon R3 EF500 mm f/4 II usm 1/1600e f5,6 Iso 1600

Depuis que j'ai commencé à photographier, j'ai toujours aimé les silhouettes, les lumières rasantes du soir ou du matin. Les contres et frisants. J'adore ces ambiances. Lors d'un récent voyage en Finlande, j'ai eu l'immense privilège de rencontrer cette maman ourse juste avant la tombée de la nuit. Pour moi, ce fut un moment inoubliable.

#nature #wildlifeprotection #wildlifephotography #wildlife #bear #brownbear #finland #forest #sunset #sunsetpics #pixelfed #art
#wildnature #predators #predator #animal #animals #cuteanimals #sun #photographers #naturephotos #naturephoto #naturephotos #wildlifeconservation #teddybear


https://www.europesays.com/1777917/ Finland: The First Bets for UMK 2025 After the Release of All Seven Songs! – Eurovision News | Music #finland #Suomi #uutiset
Finland: The First Bets for UMK 2025 After the Release of All Seven Songs! - Eurovision News | Music


https://www.europesays.com/1777811/ Summer in Turku was very pleasant in 2024. Does this setup happen every year? I’d love to visit again. #finland
Summer in Turku was very pleasant in 2024. Does this setup happen every year? I’d love to visit again.


https://www.europesays.com/1776988/ The Atlantic: A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe #finland
The Atlantic: A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe


https://www.europesays.com/1776826/ This week’s good things: A research trip to Finland, a Civil War hero’s cemetery plot and good news at McCaskey and Donegal [editorial] | Our Opinion #Editorials #finland #Suomi #uutiset


https://www.europesays.com/1773356/ Radio Suomi lopettaa useita suosikkiohjelmia – Tätä tilalle #24h #audio #finland #Media(Viestintä) #Musiikki #Suomi #TaiteellinenIlmaisuJaMediat #TvOhjelmat #uutiset
Radio Suomi lopettaa useita suosikkiohjelmia – Tätä tilalle


Finland in the world press https://www.byteseu.com/641136/ #articles #Energy #financial #Finland #geothermal #HelsinkiArena #international #Literacy #News #press #World
Finland in the world press


A Swedish Navy ship has found and raised the anchor of the Eagle S vessel, which is suspected of damaging the Estlink 2 submarine electric cable in the Gulf of #Finland.

The vessel, which was transporting oil from russia to Egypt

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/swedish-ship-raises-anchor-of-eagle-s-tanker-suspected-of-severing-underwater-communications/


#Finland sez #Russia is the 'Forever Threat'. 😂
via @byteseu above the fold


Finland PM says Russia ‘permanent’ threat to EU https://www.byteseu.com/584929/ #Finland
Finland PM says Russia ‘permanent’ threat to EU


https://www.europesays.com/1682642/ YK:n yleiskokous vaati välitöntä tulitaukoa Gazaan, myös Suomi kannatti | Uutisia lyhyesti #finland #Israel #KansainvälinenPolitiikka #LähiItä #palestiinalaisalueet #Suomi #ulkomaat #uutiset #YhdistyneidenKansakuntienYleiskokous #YK
YK:n yleiskokous vaati välitöntä tulitaukoa Gazaan, myös Suomi kannatti | Uutisia lyhyesti