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ALAND ISLANDS: Attuned to the mobile race

Regional PoliticsOutside the red and white wooden farmhouse, Rainer Sundin bends down to pull another lump of Aland's red granite from the ditch where, soon, optical cables will be laid. The stones were once used for building the island's roads but now they are a stubborn obstacle in the path of the information highway which is spreading rapidly across this scattered archipelago in the north Baltic Sea...more

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