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2026-08-07
Diplomat and former presidential adviser Alpo Rusi spent decades inside Finnish foreign policy. His book on KGB influence in Finland, and our conversation about it, argue that 1991-2022 was one long transitional era — and that Finland kept missing its exit.
geopoliticsrussiafinlandalpo-rusinato
2026-08-07
Esko Aho became Finland's youngest prime minister in 1991 and inherited a banking collapse, a currency peg nobody dared touch, and a recession that wiped out most of the corporate sector. His account is a case study in how fixed commitments turn into denial.
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2026-08-07
Major General (ret.) Pekka Toveri read Russia's opening weeks in Ukraine through tank columns and broken logistics, not slogans. Revisiting his March 2022 analysis — and where his own career went next.
geopoliticsrussiaukrainepekka-toverinato
2026-08-07
Journalists Sanna Ukkola and Ivan Puopolo spent a year documenting diversity-training leaks at Finland's public broadcaster. The more interesting story, underneath the culture-war framing, is who is supposed to be holding a 600-million-euro institution accountable — and isn't.
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2026-07-24
Legal AI ROI depends on jurisdiction-specific context. In Finland, that means direct access to Finlex statutes, precedents and government bills. Extended with a detailed reading of my conversation with Aleksi Paavola: why the harness is shrinking, where the closed products still win, and what actually reaches Finnish legal sources today.
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2026-07-10
The English home of the Neuvottelija brand launches: prerendered Astro on Cloudflare Pages, Markdown mirrors, MCP metadata, and a publishing pipeline that both humans and agents can use.
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