On January 1, 2025, Finland assumed the Organization for Security and Co-Operation (OSCE) chairpersonship ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act (also known as the Helsinki Accords). Finland’s chairpersonship comes at a difficult time for the OSCE, the world’s largest security organization with 57 participating states.

A researcher says that hardly anyone has high expectations for Finland's year-long leadership term of the OSCE. But Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has a different view of the situation.

Crew on board an oil tanker accused of sabotaging undersea power and communications cables in the Baltic Sea were poised to cut other cables and pipelines when Finnish authorities boarded the vessel last month,

As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office on Jan. 20, Ukraine's fate hangs in the balance. While some potential details of Trump's future peace proposals have been leaked, the overall plan still remains unclear.

"As everyone knows, Germany is Ukraine's biggest supporter and will remain so — so that the country can defend its independence and sovereignty," he said this week at the NATO summit of the Nordic countries in Helsinki. There may be some electioneering ...

According to the review, Finland is not currently being targeted by exceptional information influence and is not a primary target of Russia. Kremlin influence efforts concentrate on threatening and inflammatory rhetoric about supporting Ukraine and Nato, the report says.

President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, announced Thursday that he is actively working to arrange a meeting with Russian President

I am confident that through hard diplomatic work we will be able to strengthen the Organization, contribute to a safer, more secure Europe and beyond,' says Feridun Sinirlioglu - Anadolu Ajansı

Rutte said Thursday that "if Ukraine loses then to restore the deterrence of the rest of NATO again, it will be a much, much higher price than what we are contemplating at this moment."

This is an audio transcript of the Rachman Review podcast episode: ‘Finland’s president on Europe in a Trumpian world’

Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of them were convinced Nazis and may have committed atrocities. The finding has triggered a debate in Finland.

A top Democrat tells the Sun that the White House’s inability to get tougher on Russia has helped contribute to the drawn-out war in Ukraine.