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With the admission of Finland and Sweden, NATO is creating a new front in the war against Russia in Scandinavia and throughout the Baltic Sea region. The danger of an all-out war against a nuclear-armed power continues to increase.

The Finnish parliament amended its legal guidelines on Tuesday, to strengthen the fences alongside the nation's border with Russia, because the Nordic nation

HELSINKI: Finnish parliament passed legislation Thursday to build stronger fences on its border with Russia, as the country seeks to join NATO following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Finland reversed decades of military non-alignment by seeking membership in the military alliance in May, formally starting the process to join this week. Fearing that Moscow could use migrants to

Currently, Finlands border with Russia is only secured by light wooden fences, mainly installed to prevent cattle from grazing on the wrong side.

Finland passed legislation to build stronger fences on its border with Russia, as the country seeks to join NATO following the war in Ukraine. 

New era of tensions requires sturdier barriers than current wooden livestock fences, parliament decides

Finland will not be introducing obligatory Swedish exams, Education Minister Li Andersson told Uutisuomalainen.

Ukraine yesterday launched new airstrikes on Russian positions in the captured southern region of Kherson, the country’s military said, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reiterated that Kyiv’s forces were “holding on” in the east of the country. Ukraine is trying to carry out a counterattack in Kherson, one of the first areas to be taken by Russia after the Feb. 24 invasion, as Kyiv’s troops struggle in the eastern Donbas region. Zelenskiy said in his evening address on Thursd...