MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS/. Russia is on heightened alert amid NATO creeping closer to Russian borders with the entry of Finland and Sweden into the alliance, Sergey Shoigu, secretary of the Russian ...

Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has confirmed that "several people" were detained on Tuesday evening in ...

Russian warplanes buzzing into NATO and European Union airspace — prompting the top diplomat in Brussels to accuse Moscow of ...

Experience Finland's scenic beauty on VR's Intercity train from Helsinki to Parikkala, a route along the Russian border.

As a child during the Cold War, Sari Tukiainen would climb a hill in her hometown of Imatra and look over the border to the smokestacks of Svetogorsk, wondering about ...

A Russian who jumped from a moving train to escape being sent to war has reportedly been denied asylum in Finland.

Authorities in Russia’s republic of Karelia say they are forming volunteer militias to help defend the country’s border with ...

STOCKHOLM, October 30. /TASS/. The Finnish Army will deploy around 15,000 military personnel for a series of exercises starting in late November, with some maneuvers taking place close to the Russian ...

Luckily, Finland has just the thing: sisu—a personality trait or philosophy combining inner strength, perseverance and a ...

Warsaw said on Thursday it would not reopen more border crossings with close Russian ally Belarus until at least mid-November ...

Lithuania’s government will keep the country’s two border crossings with Belarus closed for the next month after balloons ...

As the Moscow-Kaliningrad train approached Lithuania, the car attendant beckoned to passengers in Russian: "I'm closing the ...