Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...

(Fixes typo in headline) By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would respond if Finland ...

Northern Europe is seeing a major military build-up as NATO strengthens its presence in the Arctic.

Finland's intelligence agency warned Tuesday that Russian spies could boost their efforts to target and destabilise the new NATO member once the Ukraine war ends. "Russian intelligence and influencing ...

The government says the nation's defence environment has "significantly changed" since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has threatened the nation with 'appropriate measures' if the NATO member lifts its ban on nuclear weapons, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov sending a warning ...

A deserted cafe and petrol station near the Niirala border crossing to Russia shows how life has been on hold since Finland shut the frontier with its giant neighbour in December 2023. Helsinki had ...

By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that Finland's plan to lift a ban on hosting nuclear arms raised tensions in Europe and posed a potential threat to Russia, to ...

Finland proposes lifting a decades-old ban on nuclear weapons on its territory to strengthen NATO deterrence amid rising tensions.

EADaily, February 27th, 2026. Russian icebreakers are helping ships in the Finnish waters of the Gulf of Finland. Independently, neighbors cannot cope with abnormally thick ice, which paralyzes the ...

HELSINKI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Russia will "likely persist in its ambitions to damage the undersea infrastructure of the Baltic Sea", Finland's Defence Command said in its annual military intelligence ...