How to get free education? How to buy or rent housing? How to get a residence permit and get a job? How to taste the northern cuisine? How to get married in Finland? In the book you will read about all this and much more! The famous television journalist Andrei Shilov has been talking about Finland in the Russian media for fifteen years, and in recent years he has been there even more often than in Russia, because his family lives there. Here you will find observations and advice from Russians and Finns living in Finland, governors, realtors, mayors, teachers, police officers and pensioners. This book will make you look at Finland, our closest European neighbor, in a completely new way.