Current affairs

Pihla Viitala is in protagonist role playing Germany Cordoba in Layia Yiourgou´s new movie Red sky.

How is peace built at the highest political level? Or, how does a victim of cruel human rights violations end up building a career as a hip hop artist – and a peace activist? Crisis Management Initiative, the organisation established by President Martti Ahtisaari, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a seminar to be held in Helsinki on 19 April. The seminar invitees include experts of peace mediation, from Kofi Annan and Stephen Heintz to Emmanuel Jal.

Children Of Bodom hits the road with Ensiferum and Machinae Supremacy on The Ugly World Tour 2011 and they all are in Athens on Saturday 16th April.

A luxurious coffee-table book, Classy Finnish Restaurants, reveals Finland’s best dining experiences. Get a taste in our slideshow.

One of the leading Finnish string players, Martti Rousi, will perform "Saturday night with Vivaldi...!" in Athens on 9 April 2011.

The Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki holds a powerful exhibition that shows how naturalist artists from Finland and abroad influenced the communities where they lived – and each other.

Namibia. Ireland. Kosovo. Aceh. The Finnish peace-mediators have been involved in solving serious conflicts around the world. The most renowned of them all, President Martti Ahtisaari has stated: "Peace is a matter of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.” Ahtisaari’s organisation, Crisis Management Initiative, will organise a 10th anniversary seminar in 19 April. Among the participants is the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The advance voting in Athens is on 6–9th April 2010 and in Albania on 7th April . The voting day in Finland is 17th April 2010.

Finnish literature is going further than ever. Join our tour of prose, poetry and publishing (and Finland-Swedish books).

The principal of Helsinki's German School tells us how to utilise the best sides of two school systems in one school