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

Traditional reindeer racing that's been delighting spectators for decades in Finland brought hundreds of fans to the Salla Reindeer Cup in the town of Salla this past weekend.Around 1,000 people ...

Reindeer and their mushers sprint down the opening stretch during the Salla Porocup reindeer sprint racing event ...

Russia continues to add new military units near NATO’s eastern flank, according to a new threat assessment that warns against easing Western sanctions on the Kremlin. More military firepower is how ...

This country offers more than just beautiful landscapes. Retiring here means access to quality health care, low crime, and a population that truly values wellbeing.

Ten countries in Northern and Baltic Europe have agreed to prepare plans for cross-border evacuation of the population in case of war or a large-scale crisis.This was reported by the […] ...

Europe’s human rights court found Norway did not wrong a Sámi village in Sweden by restricting its access, ending a decades-old dispute over property, compensation and Indigenous land use across the ...

On March 3, 1918, Russia quit World War I with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk—ceding vast territory and reshaping borders from the Baltics to Ukraine. Here’s how that rushed “peace” still echoes in ...

More than two years later, the border between Russia and Finland remains closed. And the consequences for Finnish businesses are dire: many are still suffering economically from the loss of revenue.

The Finnish government is studying some of the hundreds of properties that have been bought near critical infrastructure and sensitive sites for signs of possible Russian infiltration.

The Trump administration is planning to build a border wall along Big Bend National Park in Texas—and a newly updated prospective map shows its proposed footprint. On February 17, Inside Climate News ...