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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Kremlin has warned it could respond if Finland changes its laws to allow nuclear weapons to transit through or be ...

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 ...

The former nursing home in Kankaanpää in southwestern Finland wasn’t exactly prime real estate. Partially derelict, it was located in a swampy region far from the picturesque Lake District where many ...

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 ...