Russia is building a garrison in Kandalaksha for an artillery brigade. This is the first concrete sign of a permanent ...

Russia has since started forming the 68th Motorized Rifle Division ... to Finland, it continued. The number of Russian troops based close to Finland could double or triple compared to before ...

Finland officially became a member of the NATO military alliance on Tuesday. Finland has an 830-mile border with Russia, meaning Russia's border with NATO more than doubles. The development is a ...

Finland’s membership in the Western military ... are dead. It may be years before Russia poses a conventional military threat from across the verdant forest of pine, spruce and birch.

You can get in touch with John by emailing [email protected] Sweden and Finland ... from the coastline—before being "removed" by the interceptor. Wikman said Russia's action was "unacceptable ...

It did so as it broke ground on a new border fence that will form part of the Western defensive bloc's newly-extended eastern flank, right on Russia's border. Kai Sauer, Finland's Under Secretary ...

By leaving the treaty, Finland, which guards NATO’s longest border with Russia, could start stockpiling landmines again to have them at hand should a need arise. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo told ...

Nuijamaa (Finland) (AFP) – Dozens of asylum seekers arrived at four Finnish border crossings with Russia on Friday, just hours before they were to close, a border guard captain told AFP.

The Kremlin has voiced regret about Finland’s decision to close the checkpoints and rejected Finnish authorities’ claims that Russia has encouraged ... unlike before, not only Russian border ...