The Finland Station in Leningrad is the place where Lenin got off the train on the night of April 3, 1917, to take charge of the Russian revolution. There in the cold, draughty Tsar's Room of ...

Weather warnings for heat are in effect in the north, while in the south there are warnings for heavy rain and thunderstorms.

Finland recorded its hottest day of the summer as temperatures exceeded 30°C in multiple regions. A tropical night followed in the south, while intense thunderstorms and heavy rain triggered flood ...

By Branko Milanovic Almost never are witnesses to historical events aware they are observing or participating in a history-changing event. Often, the very protagonists of the historical events are ...

Thunderstorm damage to safety equipment continues to disrupt metro services in western Espoo, with repairs ongoing and ...

The journey to the Finland Station in the title of this study by Edmund Wilson is described only at the end of this book, and refers to the train in which exiled socialists Lenin and Trotsky ...

Could President Putin have his sights set on making trouble for Europe by way of the frigid northern climes? Some conventional wisdom has it that after his clumsy warmongering in Ukraine, the Russ ...

In December, KROS Radio in Clinton, Iowa, was contacted by Tuomo Vesala, a 59-year-old carpenter, who heard the station's broadcast all the way from Finland — more than 4,000 miles away.

TO THE FINLAND STATION—Edmund Wilson—Harcourt, Brace ($4). The Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the ...

Beginning soon after Vladimir Lenin’s arrival at the Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917 and wrapping up not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Soviet Union was a powerful ...

By Branko Milanovic Almost never are witnesses to historical events aware they are observing or participating in a history-changing event. Often, the very protagonists of the historical events are ...