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Here is a selection of what the international press has published about Finland in the last week: Finland recovers ship’s anchor close to damaged Baltic Sea pipeline Finnish investigators recovering a large 6-ton ship’s anchor near the site of extensive damage to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline, was covered in an article by The Guardian on October 24.

Here is a selection of what the international press has published about Finland in the last week: Finland faces growing Russian online threat, Finnish security services say Finland experiencing a surge in online espionage attempts from Russia following the latter’s invasion of Ukraine, was covered in an article by The Guardian on October 18.

Even before President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile and signaled it might pull out of a test-ban treaty, researchers had watched closely as Russia built up infrastructure on the remote Novaya Zemlya islands, where decades of nuclear testing took place.

Four years after an accident believed to have killed up to seven nuclear workers, Russia appears to be once again testing a missile critics have nicknamed the "flying Chernobyl,"...

The Norwegian police have detained Andrei Medvedev, Former Commander of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), who had previously fled from Russia to Norway and asked for asylum, while attempting to illegally cross the border with Russia.

Andrey Medvedev, the former Wagner Group commander who made headlines in January 2023 for escaping to Norway in a bid to seek asylum, was arrested by Norwegian authorities near Kirkenes after trying to cross back into Russia.

Norwegian police detained the former commander of one of Russia’s Wagner mercenary company units, Andrei Medvedev, while he was trying to cross the border into Russia, newspaper the Barents Observer reported on Sept. 22.

Norway is planning to make a decision to restrict the entry of private cars with Russian licence plates. Source: NRK, referring to the statement of the State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Eivind Vad Petersson; European Pravda Details: The official said that the Foreign Ministry is currently working on new rules to restrict the import of Russian cars into the country.

Donor countries agree to fund an additional study on how to extract the damaged spent nuclear fuel from Tank 3A.  https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2017/12/2023-risky-part-andreeva-bay-nuclear-cleanup-starts by Thomas Nilsen Read in Russian | Читать по-русски Take a closer look at this photo and you will understand the scoop of the most challenging and risky work to be done at the…

Sergei Lavrov on Monday informed the other members of the Barents Cooperation about the withdrawal from the official structures where Russia has been frozen out since the start of the all-out war against Ukraine.