The retired major general that for many years headed the security service in Murmansk and played a key role in an influence ...

Temperatures reached a high of 11.2 degrees Celsius in Kilpisjärvi on Friday, compared to a high of -1.7 degrees on the same ...

Russia and Belarus make a new attempt to hold a large strategic military exercise along their western borders after last year ...

Russia has a major shortage of ice-class cargo fleet ships. According to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev, Russian ...

According to President Alexander Stubb, it is “urgent and essential” to improve road, rail and air connections in Northern ...

This is deterrence against potential future attacks on the Nordic region, says the Norwegian Armed Forces in a statement ...

Local authorities in the border region that used to belong to Finland hail the Soviet troops that 80 years ago seized control ...

Lawmakers in the parliament of the Republic of Tatarstan in southern Russia have proposed a law that would allow the Russian ...

Amid closer military ties in northern regions, discussions have now started between Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark on ...

Popular Russian singer Monetochka, with more than 3 million followers on TikTok and millions of views on YouTube, has been put on a wanted list by Russian authorities, news website Mediazona reports .

The German Defence Minister this week met with his Norwegian colleague Bjørn Arild Gram in Brussels. On the agenda was the ...

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