Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
UPDATED 14 FEBRUARY 2023 – Finland, the Scandinavian country with a 1,340 km (830 mi) long border with Russia, has agreed to help the Ukraine armed forces with its tank force. But according to Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin this […]
Behold of the church of Rautjärvi, Finland, as it was. Because during the Christmas 2022 mass it burned down. The arsonist behind it even tied the exit doors, but judging the police reports we now know why the 40 people […]
In its biggest exercise of the year the Finnish navy kicks off Freezing Winds ’22 on 22 November, with an for this training unusual high number of NATO participants. It is the first time since Finland applied for NATO member […]
In Finland the voting rights for the Sámi people’s representation (Sameting / Saamelaiskäräjät) have let to a political fight within the Finnish government. Prime Minister Sanna Marin wishes to bring a new, reformed Sámi law in parliament, but her Finance […]
Scandinavia could look much different today that it does. Not only the Swedish-Russian and Swedish-Danish wars might have turned out differently, the far north of Finland could have been much smaller. Because Finland wanted to give these lands away to […]
Russia kills its supply of electricity to Finland from 1AM on Saturday 14 May 2022. It’s Moscow’s punishment for Finland’s president and government announcement the Scandinavian country wants to join the NATO military alliance. Featured photo: A Finnish F-18C Hornet […]
Finnish media quote “reliable government sources” the Scandinavian country and neighbour of Russia starts its preparing membership request for the NATO military alliance coming week. Featured image: A Finnish Leopard 2 battle tank during the recent NATO Exercise Cold Response […]
Finland’s national railways VR has been playing yo-yo with its cargo transport to Russia. It took an intervention from the country’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering to stop it. VR suspended all goods transport to Russia 28 March, […]
Finland’s first new nuclear reactor in 40 years, and Western Europe’s first new in 15 years, has been delivering electricity seemingly without a problem for 3 days now. It marks the Scandinavian nation’s drive towards non-fossil independency for its energy. […]
While everybody in the world is more or less influenced by fake news, there is one Scandinavian country that prides itself in dealing with it successfully: Finland. Sharing an extensive border with Russia the land of the 1001 lakes is […]
The highest radioactive cesium-137 values since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster measured in the air over Helsinki. Still, nothing to worry about many say. Has a dirty bomb smuggled into the Finnish capital? Nobody knows. What is certain though: it came […]
The cargo vessel Arctic Sea, is said to have been hijacked off the coast of Öland, Sweden, in 2009, was carrying materials for making weapons of mass destruction. Finnish security experts Timo Hellenberg and Pekka Visuri state this in their […]
The Finnish government gave the final green light on Wednesday for the construction of the country’s sixth nuclear power plant. It will be located in Pyhäjoki in Central Finland, at the Gulf of Bothnia. With the chosen location, Finland likely […]
Finland is again reviewing the new weapons law, in effect since June, in response to the attacks in Oslo. The Finnish police leadership confirmed this to Finnish media on Tuesday. Just in June, a new gun law came into effect […]
Concerns have arisen in Sweden after the anti-European party Perussuomalaiset (True Finns) won 39 of the 200 seats in the parliamentary elections in neighbouring Finland. The position of the Swedish minority in Finland is particularly feared. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl […]
Inhabitants of Finland have been hoarding for iodine pills after the explosions at the nuclear power plants in Japan. Finnish and Swedish media reported this on Monday. Many Finnish pharmacies had already run out of stocks on Friday. However, the […]