Finland has closed four of its border crossings with Russia to try to halt a surge in asylum seekers it says was instigated by Moscow. Helsinki accused its neighbour of channelling migrants to the ...

Large-scale illegal immigration is still the biggest risk on Finland's eastern border, says Colonel Marko Saareks, the new ...

According to the Russian news website Fontanka, a teenager who crossed the eastern border from Finland into Russia is the son ...

Finland's government said Thursday it plans to keep its border with Russia closed and extend a controversial law allowing border guards to turn away asylum seekers under certain circumstances. The ...

There is one border crisis cause rarely talked about: Russian action and its puppet regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on ...

"We are taking the suspected border violation seriously and have immediately launched an investigation," Finland's Defence Minister Antti Häkkinen noted. Earlier this week, Norwegian F-35s intercepted ...

As ageing and deficient tankers in the "Russian shadow fleet" traffic the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea, a major oil spill ...

A National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) spokesperson told the Finnish public broadcaster on Tuesday that police have ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the Russian ambassador to Helsinki to request an explanation regarding a suspected violation of Finnish airspace that ...

Finland’s eastern border-crossing points were closed in November 2023, following a rapid increase in the number of asylum seekers after Russia began allowing people without valid travel ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's ... "The Russian plane is suspected of having flown in Finnish airspace for a few minutes," it said in a statement. The Finnish Border Guard agency was investigating ...