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...Indo-European ones, lack the genetic markers that would indicate they have been in Europe longer than their French and Spanish neighbors (though there are markers - such as a much higher frequency of RH-negative blood types - that point to their distinctiveness). And most speakers of Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric language surrounded by Indo-European tongues, don't appear genetically much different from their Slavic neighbors...
...close friend of mine studying mathematics at the Erdos Institute in Hungary for the semester, an accomplished polyglot in Romance languages, never managed to master more than the rudiments of the Finno-Urdic language of the Magyars. The first word came when my friend was sitting in a cafe. The waiter hushed patrons to listen to a radio report. "Belgrade," he said, and blew a cartoon explosion through his teeth. Over Wednesday afternoon, as the first reports of NATO attacks filtered in, the city became a menacing presence, its attitude towards the NATO action impossible to pin down. There were...
Finland's economic relationship with the U.S.S.R. is complex, intimate and highly profitable for the Finns. Under special trade treaties drawn up every five years, Finno-Soviet economic ties have taken on an almost mercantilistic flavor. About two-thirds of Finland's oil conies from the Soviet Union, which in turn provides Finland with its largest export market. This year the U.S.S.R. is expected to take 24.6% of all Finnish exports. Under a special agreement, Finland pays for its Soviet oil not with money but with manufactured goods, machinery and construction services. As one result, Finland...
Kekkonen returned saying he had not realized how bad Finno-Russian relations had become. "I am sure that all reasonable Finns will join me in saying that we cannot have spells of cold. Finland must naturally take into account that vital interests require our neighbor to trust us." Apparently Khrushchev had applied pressure against the free Finnish press, and despite Finnish constitutional guarantee of press freedom, Kekkonen said. "Without restraint and responsibility on the part of the press, our relations will never achieve that degree of confidence our interest deserves...
...Finno-Ugrian, a dialect of the Ural-Altaic language, is spoken in Lapland, Estonia, and Northern Siberia. Friesian is the vernacular of the Northern Netherlands and Friesland. Hyperborean, the oral-communication of the Chukchi and Koryak Eskimo tribes of the Arctic, is also spoken in Outer Mongolia...