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

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 ...

Finland's border guard said Thursday it had apprehended a man suspected of illegally crossing Finland's eastern border from Russia, which has been closed for two years.

Just two weeks earlier, the Finnish Border Guard caught three young German men suspected of illegally crossing the border on snowshoes into Russia from Kuusamo.

STOCKHOLM, October 27. /TASS/. Foreign tourists have been massively intruding into the border zone in southern Finland to take pictures against the backdrop of the fence separating it from Russia, the ...

Show more Show less The new barbed wire border fence on the closed border between Finland and Russia Gone quiet: supermarket owner Pilvi Paaskynen misses her old Russian customers A local gets about ...

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. The Barron's ...