Mayor Wilhelmsen, together with politicians from other parties in northern Norway’s largest city, announced in a letter published in Nordlys that a final end has come to relations with Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Nadym. Tromsø froze relations with the three cities shortly after Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in February. Now,Continue Reading
An Åbo Akademi University study investigated the differences in bullying risk between people of Finnish origin and immigrants in the region of Ostrobothnia. A young person with a foreign background is three times more likely to be at risk of being bullied or discriminated against by other students or teachersContinue Reading
Cod quotas for 2023 will be 20% lower, a decision made on recommendations from marine researchers in the two countries. The Norwegian-Russian Joint Fishery Commission has agreed that 2023 cod quotas in the Barents- and Norwegian Seas will total 566,784 tons, of which 260,782 tons will be Norway’s share. “DespiteContinue Reading
Creditors of the recently bankrupt Estonia Savings and Loan Association met for its general meeting on Monday but have little hope of seeing their savings restored to them. Estonia plans to step up supervision of savings and loan associations. A few hundred people gathered for the meeting, most of themContinue Reading
Cyber Shield 2022, the largest national cyber security exercise this year, kicks off in Lithuania on Tuesday. The three-day exercise, which has been organized by the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), will involve representatives of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, the Core CenterContinue Reading
President Niinistö suggested that China, the US and the EU should discuss together how to avoid further escalation of the deadly conflict in Ukraine. Parliamentarians from Nato member and partner countries gathered in Helsinki on Tuesday for the alliance’s Rose-Roth Seminar. The theme of this year’s seminar focused on theContinue Reading
STAVANGER, Norway — With natural gas scarce and pipelines in peril, Europe has rarely neededNorway more. Or resented it as much. More than seven months into the war in Ukraine, the Scandinavian country is increasingly central to Europe’s energy security. Norway, not Russia, is now the European Union’s leading naturalContinue Reading
The issue of extending military conscription to include women as well as men has been the subject of much debate in Finland over recent months. Some 35 percent of respondents to a survey by the Uutissuomalainen newspaper group said they would be in favour of extending military conscription to women.Continue Reading
The report, released on October 11, was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office in Finland in spring 2022. The study was led by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and involved Gaia Consulting Oy and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Among the issues the team was askedContinue Reading
Estonia is preparing its own package of measures in response to Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilization in Russia, Deputy Chief of Defense major general Veiko-Vello Palm said on Wednesday. However, Palm stressed that Russia’s move to partial mobilization does not pose a direct military threat to Estonia. “ThisContinue Reading