Russia-Finland border In the fall of last year ... who "stormed" Finnish checkpoints at the end of 2023 and the beginning of ...

According to the Finnish Border Guard, checkpoints in Vartius, Salla, Kuusamo and Raja-Jooseppi will remain open. Russia will analyze the situation around Finland’s decision and the accusations ...

Finland took the unprecedented step of completely shutting its land border checkpoint with Russia on November 30. This closure was a direct reaction to Russian border guards allowing individuals ...

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 documents to ...

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 ...

A reason for higher traffic in December includes Russians living in Finland who drive north via Norway’s checkpoint, as all road checkpoints along the Finnish-Russian border is closed.

Finland, which shares the European Union's longest border with Russia, joined the Western military alliance NATO in 2023 and drew its Nordic neighbour Sweden to follow in March 2024, both in ...

Finland continues to record attempts to export goods to Russia that are subject to sanctions due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, even though the Finnish-Russian border was closed last ...

HELSINKI, Feb 10 (Reuters ... "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 ...

"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 ...

A teenager who crossed Finland's border into Russia last week is the son of Ukrainian refugees, according to a report by Russian news website Fontanka. When contacted by Yle, Jussi Honkanen, head of ...