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Russia's ice hockey team head coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov holds on May 29, 2012 the trophy of the men's ice hockey 2012 World Championship during a parade in the center of Moscow after his team won the final in Helsinki on May 20, defeating Slovakia.

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    council's board voted 8-7 against the project on Wednesday after a yearlong feasibility study commissioned by the mayor of Helsinki at a cost of $2.5 million (1.9 million).Culture Minister Paavo Arhinmaki expressed his satisfaction, saying the $180 million   Read more »

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Helsinki (in Finnish; listen (help·info)), Helsingfors (in Swedish; listen (help·info)) is the capital and largest city of Finland. It is located in the southern part of Finland on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, at 60°10′N 24°56′E by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is 564,643 (31 August 2006). The Helsinki urban region contains the neighboring cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen, which are together called the Capital Region. This area has a total population of approximately 997,291 citizens. The Greater Helsinki area contains several more neighboring cities and has a population of approximately 1,293,093, which means that one out of every four Finns lives in the Greater Helsinki area.

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