Finland has officially enacted a ban on real estate transactions for citizens of Russia and Belarus, effective July 15, 2025.

The colonel noted that despite intense Russian offensives and some localized advances, Ukraine is largely holding its ground. Since November 2023, Russia has occupied about 9,000 square kilometers of ...

Finland will close four of the nine crossing points on its border with Russia on Saturday to stem a flow of asylum seekers to the Nordic nation, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Thursday.

In late 2015 and early 2016, Finland experienced a surge of migrants seeking asylum crossing the Russian border, most of them from third countries. Then, too, Finnish officials suspected Moscow.

Finland will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the current April 14 deadline "until further notice" due to a high risk of organized migration orchestrated by ...

Finland said on Tuesday that it would reopen two border crossings with Russia, partly rolling back a decision to seal the countries’ land frontier after a dispute about increased numbers of ...

Finland's minister for European Affairs, Tytti Tuppurainen, said Finland's parliament will vote on the matter early next week. Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia.

Finland has accused Russia of flooding its borders with migrants from the Middle East and Africa over its decision to increase defense cooperation with the United States, a claim which Moscow denies.

Finland already had shut seven of the eight checkpoints on its 830-mile border with Russia this month following a surge in arrivals of migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

Finland joined the NATO military alliance Tuesday, dealing a major blow to Russia with a historic realignment of the continent triggered by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Finland’s government said Sunday it intends to join NATO, ditching decades of neutrality and ignoring Russian threats of possible retaliation as the Nordic country attempts to strengthen its ...

Inspired largely by concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance last year. Western neighbor Sweden followed suit in March.