Kola, Karelia soldiers likely to increase from 30,000 to 80,000
Thousands of soldiers from the three brigades inside the Arctic Circle, near the border with NATO, are killed or wounded
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Trump hails Finnish forestry practices again
Donald Trump is scheduled to visit California on Friday to observe the wildfires, prompting him to recall Finnish forestry practices
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Finland to join Iceland’s Air Policing Mission for first time as NATO Member
Finland will mark an important moment later this month with its first-ever participation in the Air Policing Mission in Iceland
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Finland hits winter’s coldest temperature so far at -38.9°C in Lapland
The reading was recorded at 3:40am on Wednesday morning at the Tulppio weather station in northeast Finland. The lowest temperature
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Frigid weekend ahead, Lapland braces for -35°C
Finland will experience freezing weather throughout the long weekend leading into Epiphany on Monday. Snow showers are expected mainly in
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2024 was exceptionally warm in Finland
Finland had a warmer than usual year in 2024, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). The nationwide average temperature
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20 percent decline in border traffic YoY
There were 57,986 crossings at Storskog in 2024, down 20% on a year-over-year (YoY) basis from the 72,173 in 2023,
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Finland seizes tanker carrying Russian oil suspected of knocking out internet, power cables
Finnish authorities on Thursday seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage
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Finland registers coldest night of the winter on Sunday — minus 38.2C
Finnish Lapland was especially chilly this weekend. The coldest temperature of this winter season, so far, was recorded by a
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“Canada is an Arctic country at a pivotal moment,” says Foreign Minister
The Arctic is becoming an increasingly contested area, Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told a Montreal audience on Friday, pointing to
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Orpo hosts EU leaders in Lapland just before Christmas
The visiting politicians from Estonia, Greece, Italy and Sweden are all on the EU’s centre-right political spectrum. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP)
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Not-so snowy start to winter casts a gloomy shadow over Lapland tourism
A lack of snow in Finland’s far north has disappointed tourists and snowmobile safari operators alike. A number of safari
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Finland welcomes EU’s downgrading of wolf protection status
The change from “strictly protected” to “protected” means wolves can be hunted under exceptional circumstances. Finland’s Environment Minister Kai Mykkänen (NCP) has
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Warm fall, wet November mark unusual autumn weather for Finland
Lapland, Finland’s Arctic region, experienced some of the coldest autumn temperatures in the country, while the southern and eastern parts
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Finland’s government parties want to keep eastern border closed
The four parties in Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s (NCP) coalition government want to keep Finland’s border crossings with Russia closed,
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