2022 was a big year in Finnish news. Finland reacted to Russia's renewed aggression in Europe by deciding to join Nato, and sending military and other support to Ukraine. Politicians hit scandals, and Migri was once again in the headlines.
Here are the top ten most-read stories on the Yle News website from the last twelve months.
10. Finnish leaders confirm support for Nato application
Less than two months after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, and as the siege of Mariupol continued, Finland's political leadership had decided the country must join Nato. Traditionally cautious on questions around Russia, Finland's leaders had been led by an extraordinary shift in public opinion.
Before the assault on Ukraine support for joining Nato was consistently a minority view in polls, with around one in four people for Nato membership. After Russia launched its war, support climbed to 80 percent or more.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) and President Sauli Niinistö announced their support in an official joint statement, and the story covering that moment was the tenth most-read article of the year.
9. Police report busy May Day Eve, probe Helsinki and Hyvinkää crashes
May Day is always a busy celebration in Finland, marking a semi-official end of winter hibernation, if not quite the start of summer.
Finns are out and celebrating, and that usually means a busy night for the police.
This year there was a shocking incident when a car ploughed into crowds on Esplanadi, central Helsinki, and our initial report on the incident was the ninth most-read story of the year.
8. Sanna Marin drug test proves negative
The first of three stories related to media noise around Prime Minister Sanna Marin, our eighth most-read story of the year confirmed that no, she isn't on drugs.
Her social life had become the focus of media attention after videos were posted online, and interpretations of the content varied widely. The upshot was that the PM felt it necessary to prove she had not taken illegal substances.
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7. Finland prepares for possible Russian airspace ban
Russia's military aggression reordered much of Finnish business this year, and Finnair's strategy was one immediate casualty.
EU planes were banned from Russian airspace in retaliation for EU sanctions, and this pulled the rug from Finnair's marketing pitch as a "Shortcut to Asia" via numerous direct flights between Helsinki and Asian hub airports.
The state-owned airline eventually found alternative routes, but they take the long way round and cannot be described as a shortcut.
Yle News' All Points North podcast for a month-by-month journey through Finland's year in news. Listen here. Article continues after audio.
6. Finland wants to deport Wolt courier for "earning too much"
The Finnish Immigration Service has come in for some criticism this year. Whether it's deporting nurses, or slow work approving specialist visas, the agency has taken some stick.
In early May, however, we covered a story that exposed the kafkaesque nightmare some Migri customers are faced with. Muhammed Musah was denied a residence permit and given a deportation order because he had earned too much money as a courier for the Wolt delivery service.
Migri asked the local agency responsible for economic development to evaluate his case. They decided that his 5,000 euro per month income was not likely to be maintained over time, and recommended that his application be rejected.
As of December 30, his appeal had not been dealt with.
5. Satellite images show emptied Russian military base near Finnish border
Ukraine was on everyone's mind this year, especially those who, like Ukraine, have a border with Russia.
The Russian military, which has been accused by human rights groups of numerous war crimes committed this year, has a number of military bases within striking distance of the Finnish border.
One, at Alakurtti, is on territory that was part of Finland until 1944.
In July we reported on satellite imagery showing that those bases were emptying out, as the missiles were needed for the Russian military's other activities further south. That was number five on our list of most-read stories.
4. Russian cargo plane takes unexplained detour over Finland
It's worth remembering that the Ukraine aggression did not come out of nowhere. Russia had been making neighbours' nervous for a while before it launched its war, and in January a story about strange plane movements garnered a lot of readers.
3. Marin: "I haven't missed a single day of work; I'll learn my lesson"
Sanna Marin's social life was an extremely popular story this year. To recap: the PM's friends had recorded and published videos from their nights out, those videos and pictures had been discovered by mainstream media, and questions were raised about how prime ministerial they were.
After days and days of headlines, a drug test and fraught meetings with colleagues, along with an international reaction that struggled to understand why she was being criticised in Finland, a trip to Lahti was the final straw for Marin.
At an impromptu speech in the city's central square, she was moved to tears.
"I too am a human being. And I too sometimes long for joy, light and fun amidst these dark clouds," Marin told her supporters.
This was the third most-read story of the year at Yle news, but perhaps surprisingly not the most-read Marin 'partygate' story of the year.
2. Exclusive: Russia moves missiles from St Petersburg to Ukraine
Russia's military proved a source of concern all year long, and in September an exclusive for Yle showed yet more materiel being moved from Finland's vicinity to locations further south.
Saint Petersburg — Vladimir Putin's home city and the second city in Russia after Moscow — had long been surrounded by 14 air defence bases. The satellite pictures showed that some of those bases were empty of equipment, and Russia's military was therefore stretched.
1. Sanna Marin prepared to take drug test following party video criticism
In a news year few could have predicted, the top story really did come out of the blue. Drawing 330,000 pageviews, more than three times more than the second most-read story, was the news that Sanna Marin would take a drug test.
This followed claims on social media that a video circulating online had included the Prime Minister's friends chanting 'jauhojengi', or 'powder gang'.
Tabloid newspapers picked up on these claims and Marin felt compelled to take a drug test to prove she had not used illegal drugs. Marin stories are often picked up by international media, and this was no exception.