Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
In light of growing tensions in the Arctic, Finland struck a deal with the United States and Canada to jointly develop and build new icebreakers to protect the countries’ and NATO interests in the North Pole area. “As the first […]
Finland has reacted rather relaxed on what appears to be news drawn out of proportions that Russia is planning to change the sea border in the Baltic Sea. While e.g. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius immediately tweeted with calling the news […]
The first ever deployment of a Finnish military unit as full part of NATO is a fact. On Tuesday 2 April, the mine encounter vessel MHC Vahterpää (42) sailed from its base in Turku (Pansio) to join the Standing NATO […]
The unions in Finland started a two-week labour strike in many of the country’s critical economic sectors against loss of labour rights in law propositions by the government. The export companies are hardest hit, but according to Finnish media, fuel […]
Four months after the natural gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia was severely damaged, the discussion has flared on if it was really an accident, or sabotage anyway, has flared up again. Estonian national radio ERR is investigating. Featured image: […]
Swedish authorities blame Russia for the biggest GPS sabotage in the Baltic Sea, ever recorded. On 18 December last year, the first civilian plane reported total loss of satellite navigation. Soon large parts of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, […]
Finland has now closed all its border crossings with Russia for at least a month. Friday night the final two posts, at Niirala and Vaalimaa, shut down. Finnish Border Guards report long queues and about 200 asylum seekers at these […]
After Finland closed multiple of its border crossings with Russia on the night from Friday to Saturday 18 November , the Finnish Border Guards supreme commander, Mika Rytkönen, says the situation is back under control. The Finnish government took the […]
Finland has started to build a border fence with Russia, to support its border guards. The fence will cover the southernmost 200 kilometres of the 1,000 kilometre long separation line of the two countries. Cameras are installed every 50 metres. […]
Finland is proceeding buying advanced weaponry from Israel, despite the Israeli bombardments of Gaza that left hundreds to thousands Palestinian civilians dead. A call to end a weapons deal, has been put aside by the Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen. […]