The only things that I think I know about Finland is that they have a great social style democratic government where poor people can get a fancy college education if they are good at school even if they don't have wealthy parents, dying people can get help from a doctor even if they don't have thousands of dollars to buy their lives with and they don't let you freeze to death on the street just because you have been unemployed for more then six months. Is this the tourist version or is it really Utopia? They have reindeer! I watched a show here in America that explained that strangers in Finland don't smile at you and I wanted to save my money up and move there just because of that. I ain't going anywhere, I'm just curious about the rest of the world.
The Netherlands also has such a social government and I like it. Doctor visits are close to free when you need them; given that you pay your insurance every month. If you can't pay that the government does for you. There's no such things as private doctors, they all work for the government. Education system still lacks here and there I must say. Though the government provides a student with around €100 euros per month, many students still need to loan money which makes some of them refrain from taking tertairy education.
Yes, he comes from a Jewish Russian family. I'm not sure if he is a Jew in terms of chop of extrenuous body parts and going to the synagogue though, he seems far too much like an atheist.
Correct, his current 14-day posting ban was for coming back from a previous short temp ban and immediately throwing a hissy fit about it. His current temp ban expires in about a day.