Baltic Sea

Constraints on Nations and Individuals in Combating Climate Change Course and code Date Name of student Name of Institute Constraints on Nations and Individuals in Combating Climate Change For many years, the issue of climate change has been thorny mostly because it affects the whole world yet a few countries are the greatest contributors. Climate change has led to global warming that has affected many countries in terms of weather variation, flooding, poverty, and desertification.

Finland is located in Northern Europe. It’s shores border the Baltic Sea to the South and the Gulf of Finland to the East (Culture). Geographically, Finland is positioned between Sweden and Russia. Finland's coordinates are 61.9241 degrees North and 25.7482 degrees east. Finland’s land topography is made up of mostly rolling flat planes and thousands of lakes (Culture). In fact, there are over 60,000 lakes and nearly 1250 kilometers of coastline around Finland (Culture). Thanks to Finland’s location

island fortress on the captured territory in Gulf of Finland and named it St. Petersburg. Peter moved the courts and major government departments to the new capital. After the Treaty of Nystad, Russia replaced Sweden as the dominant power in the Baltic region. Peter tried to ‘Westernize’ his courtiers and introduce western fashions which were inspired by his experience in other European royal house-holds. Peter attempted to propose a change in the municipal government and economic policies. In

that time. In it are descriptions of the Scandinavian relationship with the Russians from the 9th century. Unlike in the west, where the western Vikings (Norway) plundered and settled, the Vikings were always a minority of the population near the Baltic. The authors of the chronical assumed that they were the original inhabitants of the land, but in reality, they arrived relatively recently (SSN pg. 3). They came to trade, not necessarily to settle. The wealth and vast resources in the east are what

emphasizing their desperate need to stay unseen from the world. The employee areas in the hotel compared to the lobby of the hotel suggest the unpleasantness of the immigrants’ working conditions, which are hidden behind the surface of the presentable Baltic Hotel. In the beginning of the film, Okwe is shown going to his locker to change into his receptionist uniform. The setting of the workers’ locker room is a rather confined and tight area with a low ceiling and dull colored walls and

Poland, and the Ottoman Empire as well as express interest in the viability of places such as China and Japan. Peter’s foreign policies were ambitious: he endeavoured to regain territories that were thought to be historically Russian such as the Baltic States, Poland, and Ukraine; sought access to international waterways; and aimed to extend and set up Russia’s boundaries for defence strategy as well as for a closer affinity with the Western world. Russia, therefore, become a major player in the

The region of East Prussia (Kalingrad Oblast) was taken by Russia from Germany, and was previously owned by Germany for over 700 years. Considering the history of the area and homes of millions taken and robbed, the state of East Prussia should be returned to Germany. In addition, the remnants of the local citizens and relatives of victims should be compensated for their hardships and gained the right to return home. Near the end of World War II nearly 2 million civilians evacuated East Prussia,

copal (Brody 2001). The ages vary between ambers but attempts to date each amber collection have yet to reach a consensus. Ambers are named according to the geographical location in which they were found. The most common types of amber include the Baltic and

This necessity led to conflicts with both the Ottoman Empire, and the Swedish, who blocked Russia from the ports they desired. The strong navy that Peter developed, known as the Baltic fleet, had early successes in capturing Ottoman ports such as Azov; however, its main target was the Swedish who controlled Baltic Sea. The Swedish King at the time Charles XII, fought against Peter in the Great Northern War for these ports. In the battle of Poltava, Peter’s well trained fleet successfully crushed

In the year 1700 Russia under Peter the Great formed a coalition with Poland, Saxony, and Denmark-Norway to counter the growing power of the Swedish Empire in the Baltic Sea, and won. How was it that these supposedly weak states brought down the most powerful empire of its time? At that point in history Sweden was widely regarded as having the greatest conventional army in Europe. None of the nations in the coalition were considered to be particularly powerful, and yet despite this the coalition