Countries like Finland, and to a lesser extent Latvia and Estonia, share long land borders with Russia, putting them on the frontline of any future Russian aggression. Finland also announced Tuesday ...

Finland said on Wednesday it had decided to keep its eastern border against neighbouring Russia closed until further notice.

President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly claimed that NATO poses an existential threat to Russia. In March, 2024, he ordered ...

Finland joined NATO in 2023 after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ending, together with Sweden, a ...

Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...

NATO countries sharing the strategically important Baltic Sea with Russia have boosted their presence there and are beefing ...

April 17, 2025: Ukraine’s borders were established in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed into fourteen new countries. Three years later, anxiety over Ukraine possessing some Soviet era nuclear ...

The think tank noted that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—three Baltic countries making up a chunk of NATO's eastern flank on the Russian border—were part of both the former USSR and the Russian ...

Finland's right-wing government has asked parliament to extend until the end of 2026 a law that allows it to reject asylum applications from migrants crossing its closed eastern border with Russia and ...