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	The Border Guard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Border Guard is responsible for Finland's internal security, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior.
		The main functions of the Border Guard are guarding of the land borders and the territorial waters, passport control at the border crossing points, ports and airports, as well as performing of
		The Border Guard developed into its current form after the wars when the Coast Guard was integrated into it and border control was extended to Finland's western and northern borders.
	www.rvl.fi /rvl/home.nsf/pages/index_eng (141 words)

	FAST-FIN-1 Finnish Institutions Papers
		The basis for the formation of the Finnish territorial waters is the outmost landmarks of the coastline and archipelago, either on the mainland or on islands.
		The Finnish national border at sea deviates from the route of the outer boundary of the internal waters in the areas adjacent to the national borders with Russia and Sweden.
		The overall responsibility for the naval surveillance of the Finnish Territorial waters lies with the Headquarters of the Navy (subordinate to the Ministry of Defence).
	www.uta.fi /FAST/FIN/MIL/ps-surv.html (4814 words)

	Finnish Defence Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Finnish Defence Forces (Finnish Puolustusvoimat; Swedish Försvarsmakten) is a cadre army of 16500, of which 8700 professional soldiers (officers), with a standard readiness strength of 34,700 people in uniform (27,300 army, 3,000 navy, and 4,400 air force).
		The Finnish Defence Forces are under the command of the Chief of Defence, who is directly subordinate to the President of the Republic in matters related to the military command.
		These Finnish Jäger troops arrived in February 1918 in the white capital city of Vaasa and formed the core of the White Army in the Finnish Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_Defence_Forces (1483 words)

	Fire and Ice: History
		The demand for the Germans to leave Finland was made by Finnish Foreign Minister Carl Enckell on September 2 to the German ambassador in Helsinki.
		This surprise operation would land Finnish troops behind the German front lines and was seen as the maneuver needed to force a general German retreat from Finland.
		The Finnish attack on the Germans at Tornio began on October 1 with the landing advance by the 3rd Divisions 11th Infantry Regiment.
	www.wfyi.org /fireandice/history/lapland.htm (1647 words)

	AllRefer.com - Finland - Frontier Guard \| Finnish Information Resource
		The Coast Guard (sometimes called the Sea Guard), dating from 1930, was also under the Ministry of Interior and was made part of the RVL in 1944.
		The peacetime tasks of the RVL were to guard and to patrol national boundaries; to work with the police in maintaining public order and safety in frontier and coastal areas; to prevent and, if necessary, to investigate frontier incidents; and, together with the Customs Office, to exercise customs control.
		Basic training of the RVL was conducted at the Frontier Guard School at Immola in the municipality of Imatra and at the Coast Guard School at Otaniemi.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/finland/finland189.html (678 words)

	The Washington Times - Finland
		In the last decade, the activities of the Finnish Frontier Guard (FFG) have become increasingly internationalized, with EU membership turning the FFG's activities westward.
		Finnish Frontier Guards are responsible for guarding the national borders and, since 1990, passport control for arrivals and departures.
		What the FFG fears are the estimated 1 million “third country refugees” now living in Russia, eager to come to the West.
	www.internationalspecialreports.com /archives/99/finland/3.html (803 words)

	Finland - Frontier Guard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Coast Guard (sometimes called the Sea Guard), dating from 1930, was also under the Ministry of Interior and was made part of the RVL in 1944.
		The peacetime tasks of the RVL were to guard and to patrol national boundaries; to work with the police in maintaining public order and safety in frontier and coastal areas; to prevent and, if necessary, to investigate frontier incidents; and, together with the Customs Office, to exercise customs control.
		Basic training of the RVL was conducted at the Frontier Guard School at Immola in the municipality of Imatra and at the Coast Guard School at Otaniemi.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-4742.html (556 words)

	Estonia-Helicopter-Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On board were two Finnish pilots and 12 passengers from Finland, Estonia and the U.S, officials said.
		Five of the Finnish passengers were union officials or business leaders who had been in Tallinn for two days of talks.
		Copterline, the Finnish company that operated the helicopter, said one of the pilots was a 41-year-old former Finnish Frontier Guard airman, and the other, age 57, had served in the company for 10 years.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050811/w081116.html (589 words)

	Border guards' strike ends
		Negotiations between the Finnish Frontier Guard authority and the Border Guard Union concluded on 28 June 2005.
		The definition of 'essential work' during industrial action became a particularly sensitive issue during the negotiations; both the Frontier Guard and the government took steps to limit the effects of the strike by attempting to give supervisors the right to perform strikers' duties.
		Collective bargaining negotiations between the Frontier Guard (Rajavartiolaitos) and the Border Guard Union (Rajavartioliitto) had been conducted without success in the course of spring 2005, which led the union to begin a strike on the Finland-Russia border on 31 May (FI0506201N).
	www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int /2005/08/inbrief/fi0508202n.html (656 words)

	EIRO
		The level of fixed-term employment remains high in the Finnish public sector (with around a quarter of all workers affected) and women in particular are involved.
		Finnish local authorities are increasingly outsourcing their welfare services to the private sector, according to research published in February 2005.
		The Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees (STTK) responded to EVA’s challenge in January 2005 by proposing the establishment of a similar organisation for the labour movement.
	www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int /2005/country/finland.html (1818 words)

	BarentsNews.com :: News Archive
		The aim of the federal frontier guard has remained the same - protection of the Russian state border on land and at sea, providing control at cross-border checkpoints, inspecting people, transport and cargoes crossing the border.
		In September, the Arctic regional frontier guard together with Federal Security Service officers detained a Russian citizen, originally from Iraq, who, since the start of this year, had been seeking for ways to establish a steady flow of illegal Iraqi immigrants to Scandinavian countries, using false documents.
		Collaboration with Norwegian and Finnish frontier guard structures on preventing and revealing channels of illegal migration and smuggle is well established.
	www.barentsnews.com /news_full/77 (1069 words)

	Finland - Fact Sheet
		A swallow-tailed flag with a special sign in the upper hoist field may be used as a command flag of Minister of Defence or Commander of the Defence Forces and as a navy command flag in armed vessels.
		The one who damages the Finnish flag, or treats it in an unrespectful way, or without permission takes off an openly out-put Finnish flag, shall be fined for disgracing the Finnish flag.
		If the Finnish flag is used publicly with other flags, standards, pennants, or comparable, the Finnish flag has to be placed in the most valuable position.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/fi_fact.html (1256 words)

	The Civil Guard Of Finland
		The Finnish Civil War of 1918 left festering wounds among Finns and it is open to question if the wound,even nowadays, is fully healed.
		For part of the Finnish population Suojeluskunta has remained heroes that liberated Finland, while the other part still calls them by their old nickname "lahtari" (butcher) used by the Reds during the 1918 war.
		Finnish President Svinhufvud (who was a well known Sk member) also repeated the same message in his radio speech during the rebellion.
	www.mosinnagant.net /finland/TheCivilGuardOfFinland.asp (5431 words)

	Border guards' strike ends
		Negotiations between the Finnish Frontier Guard authority and the Border Guard Union concluded on 28 June 2005.
		The definition of 'essential work' during industrial action became a particularly sensitive issue during the negotiations; both the Frontier Guard and the government took steps to limit the effects of the strike by attempting to give supervisors the right to perform strikers' duties.
		Collective bargaining negotiations between the Frontier Guard (Rajavartiolaitos) and the Border Guard Union (Rajavartioliitto) had been conducted without success in the course of spring 2005, which led the union to begin a strike on the Finland-Russia border on 31 May (FI0506201N).
	eurofound.europa.eu /eiro/2005/08/inbrief/fi0508202n.html (657 words)

	Air Base of Finnish Frontier Guard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Finnish Frontier Guard's air base in Rovaniemi covers the whole of northern Finland.
		The building is not just an aircraft store, but an essential feature in the Frontier Guard's public image.
		The fabric-covered up-and-over doors of the hangar are painted dark green, the color of the Finnish Frontier Guard.
	www.heikkinen-komonen.fi /Rvl/rvl_text_e.htm (218 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Finns Fear Cross-Border Human Trafficking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Finnish Foreign Ministry statement about the working group on human trafficking was issued shortly after Finland border officials detained and extradited 48 Georgian women who tried to enter Finland by bus and were suspected of attempting to go to the European Union to work illegally.
		Border guard lieutenants Ilkka Tuimikko from Imatra and Vesa Petman from Lappeenranta denied that guards are racist and said no decisions are made on the basis of a citizen's country of origin.
		Two years ago an employee of the Finnish Embassy in Moscow broke the law and was fired on suspicion of accepting bribes for issuing visas, the daily reported last week, quoting the Finnish Foreign Ministry.
	www.times.spb.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=3214 (846 words)

	NewsRoom Finland
		Representatives of the Finnish Frontier Guard and the Border Guards' Union began a meeting at noon (GMT+3) Monday to discuss the scope of the strike that is to begin on Tuesday.
		On 15 June the Finnish government came up with a surprise bill that would allow it to order officers and warrant officers who would not normally man border crossings to take over such tasks.
		The border guards were on strike - a first in the country's history - from 31 May until 11 June, but this applied only to the land border crossings along the border with Russia.
	newsroom.finland.fi /stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=9001&group=Politics (424 words)

	CER \| Finland's president adresses parliament
		Finnish industry has called for a new nuclear reactor to be added to the existing four units.
		The Finnish Frontier Guard is concerned about the implications of a decision made by the Russian Border Guard to strengthen the monitoring of sectors of the border in crisis areas at the expense of security on the more peaceful borders with Finland and Norway.
		The Russian Border Guard service estimated that some 1.5 million foreigners are living illegally in Russia, and it is expected some may try to immigrate to the West.
	www.ce-review.org /01/6/finlandnews6.html (1001 words)

	epunkt43
		The mystery of the 'large object', the 'fragments' and other scrap must be connected with the statement of the Commission (Lehtola) on 2 October 1994 of, what was later revealed to be, a false position of the wreck 1.14.
		The ramp was closed and the area of the exploded hole filmed by the Czech diver in August 2000, 2.24 and 3.10, was stated to be undamaged.
		He notes that in addition to the Frontier Guard, videotape of the wreck was taken by divers of the Finnish Environment Institute, and a team of Norwegian divers.
	members.tripod.com /heiwaco/epunkt43.htm (3750 words)

	FINNISH ARMY 1918-1945: WEAPONS FINNISH ARMY ALMOST HAD IN WORLD WAR 2, PART 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Finnish Armed Forces had a shortage of military pistols during World War 2 and manufacturing of domestic pistol L-35 soon proved too expensive and slow for solving this shortage any time soon.
		Finnish military found better cheap and easy to manufacture from submachinegun M/44, which was based to Soviet PPS-42 and PPS-43.
		It is easy to understand why it was suitable and popular weapon for frontier guards and peacekeepers - in both of these services the personnel is unlikely to ever fire a shot in anger, but they have to carry their weapons with them constantly.
	www.jaegerplatoon.net /ALMOST2.htm (6326 words)

	Map Zones : Finland Map
		Complicating the emergence of the Finnish people into national consciousness, however, was the split between the majority of Finnish speakers and a powerful and influential minority of Swedish speakers.
		Finland (in Finnish, Suomi), officially Republic of Finland, republic in northern Europe, bordered on the north by Norway, on the east by Russia, on the south by Russia and the Gulf of Finland, on the south-west by the Baltic Sea, and on the west by the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden.
		The Swedish-speaking population, found mainly in the coastal area in the south, southwest, and west and in the Åland Islands (where Swedish is the sole official language), is slowly declining and constitutes roughly 5 percent of the total.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/finland (2902 words)

	EIRO, european industrial relations observatory on-line - Finland
		The definition of essential workduring industrial action became a particularly sensitive issue during the negotiations; both the Frontier Guard and the government took steps to limit the effects of the strike by attempting to give supervisors the right to perform strikers' duties.
		Finnish local authorities are increasingly outsourcing their welfare services to the private sector, according to research published in February 2005.
		The Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees (STTK) responded to EVA’s challenge in January 2005 by proposing the establishment of a similar organisation for the labour movement.
	eurofound.europa.eu /eiro/2005/country/finland.html (1837 words)

	Ministry of Defence of Finland :: Section III: International crisis management
		Finnish peacekeepers are currently participating in ten different operations involving a total strength of about 1,600 personnel.
		Finnish observers are currently serving in the Balkans, the Middle East, Kashmir, Kuwait and on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border.
		The Finnish Frontier Guard is able to release several experts a year for international civilian crisis management duties.
	www.defmin.fi /index.phtml?fontsize=1&l=en&s=186 (5498 words)

	Ministry of Defence of Finland :: Section IV: Precautionary measures and combating threats to society
		The Frontier Guard is participating actively in the development of standards regulating external border controls in the EU.
		The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority is helping to improve safety in nuclear power plants in neighbouring areas and to enhance the radiation safety and accident contingency planning capacity in those areas.
		The ability of the Finnish defence industry to function as a responsible system supplier must be improved, and the capacity to supply system maintenance as an integral part of system procurement must be created.
	www.defmin.fi /index.phtml?l=en&s=187 (7932 words)

	Finland - Flag Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The one who damages the Finnish flag, or treats it in an disrespectful way, or without permission takes off an openly out-put Finnish flag, shall be fined for disgracing the Finnish flag.
		The flag has to be that kind of Finnish flag, which the bureau is prescribed to use.
		If the Finnish flag is used publicly with other flags, standards, pennants, or comparable, the Finnish flag has to be placed in the most valuable position.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fi-law.html (1238 words)

	MV ESTONIA - final report CHAPTER 7 THE RESCUE OPERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Frontier Guard carried out mari-time SAR operations and attended to the planning, management and supervision of maritime SAR services as well as to the co-ordination of the operation.
		In accordance with the organisation and division of responsibility of the Finnish SAR services, the overall responsibility for the SAR action in the case of the ESTONIA was held by the commander of the Archipelago Sea Coast Guard Section or by the coast guard officer designated by him.
		The coast guard patrol vessel TURSAS, alerted at 0130 hrs, was ordered to proceed to the scene of the accident, where she arrived at 0500 hrs.
	www.webandwire.com /chapt07_1.html (10937 words)

	Oulu International Airshow '97 general information
		One of the aims of the airshow is to show the cooperation between Finnish and foreign air forces to the public.
		Finnish Defence forces will also give demonstrations with their Mi-8 helicopters, tanks, armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft guns.
		Finnish Air Force has their standard maintenance equipment on the field.
	www.suomi.net /airshow/eng/html/body_oias_general_information.html (899 words)

	Finnish frontier guard aircraft
		finnish frontier guard aircraft, and a great deal supplementary information can be learned here.
		see finnish frontier guard aircraft bulletins, finnish frontier guard aircraft newsletters and finnish frontier guard aircraft reports.
		Furthermore, www.finland-discovered.com will clarify for you with respect to finnish frontier guard aircraft and the full district next to Finland and finnish frontier guard aircraft.
	www.finland-discovered.com /Finland-Articles/finnish-frontier-guard-aircraft.html (141 words)

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