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Security concerns are preventing searches from being carried out on the Russian side of the border this summer, reports the Finnish news agency (STT).

For Finnish people, the concept of sisu cannot be directly interpreted. Roughly translated, it means strength, perseverance, and a firm determination to keep…

Late in World War II, Aatami, a former Finnish commando, went far into the wilderness of Northern Lapland. The Soviets wiped out his family in the Winter War several years

After decades of peaceful coexistence on Russias borders, the Finns relinquished neutrality and sought shelter within the military alliance.

Finland, which has had a dark and uneasy history with Russia as a neighbor, originally attempted to keep a neutral but aware stance on their eastern neighbor since World War Two. Now that the Russian invasion has changed its stance, the largest reserve and artillery army in Europe now poses the ultimate nightmare to the Kremlin, more so than Ukraine could in the alliance.

Helsinki, spring 1975: Author Jeanette Aspen arrives at the Lapinlahti hospital, one of the oldest mental hospitals in the world. She is there to meet her only child, psychiatrist Karin Aspen, 36 years, after sending her to Sweden as a war child at the start of the Winter War in 1939 as she herself had travelled to Spain to begin a new life. The encounter opens a drama between the mother and daughter, complete strangers to each other. The architectural beauty of the mental hospital serves as an ...

I snow outside Suomussalmi, a town 600km (370 miles) north of Helsinki, lies a metre deep. Step off the road and you sink to your thighs, as the Soviet army’s…

In the later months of 1939--a whole year that would live in infamy--the USSRs foreign service minister, Mr. Molotov, sent this note to the Finnish ambassador to the Soviet Union:

Finland serves as a glowing example for Ukraine, which in turn today has become the best advertisement for NATO.

"Hell of a way to fight a war..." Screen Media has revealed an official trailer for Come Out Fighting, a WWII action thriller from the filmmaker Steven Luke - he has been making tons of these junk World War II films recently, including Battle of the Bulge: Winter War, and Operation Seawolf before this. His