Authorities in Russia’s republic of Karelia say they are forming volunteer militias to help defend the country’s border with ...

Finland’s decision to seal its border with Russia was meant to protect its sovereignty — but it’s now tearing through its economy. In South Karelia, once buzzing with Russian shoppers and cross-border ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China ...

Finnish Air Force personnel are currently undergoing training at Eglin AFB, while extensive infrastructure upgrades and ...

And as I wriggle into the thick rubber, I realise that its gaudy satsuma hue is not even the least flattering thing about it. It also comes with balaclava and padded ‘mittens’. I have rarely looked ...

The Republic of Karelia is a land that is bringing tensions between Russia and Finland. Since the Scandinavian country joined NATO, relations between the two countries have been compromised. Let us ...

The tightening sanctions measures affecting Russian-Finnish relations have had minimal impact on Karelian Russians, according to interviews with citizens of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Russian Karelia is inhabited by a dense, stable brown bear (Ursus arctos) population. To the west of this core area, in Finland, bear numbers ...

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev accused Finnish leadership of "deliberately seeking a confrontation" with Russia. According to him, Finland's policies might be controlled by the ...

Below his snow-dusted shapka hat, Anatoliy Vasiljev's rheumy eyes peer through a pair of fogged-up spectacles. In Rubchoila village, about 80km west of Petrozavodsk, capital of the Russian Republic of ...

The hemerophilous flora of Kuusamo, a thinly populated, northern boreal, woodland district, consists of ca. 440 taxa. Ca. 170 taxa (39 %) are native (local apophytes or both aliens and apophytes) and ...

The objective of this study was to determine the site-specific cancer incidence of hypertensive patients and examine the effect of blood pressure-related variables on the risk of cancers with elevated ...