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.

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said there’s no conclusion yet on whether recent repeated damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea was sabotage.

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."

When a state challenges our joint principles, we must rise to event. This is our first priority,' says Elina Valtonen - Anadolu Ajansı

New radars at the small mountain top significantly expand Russian air defence forces' eyes and ears over northern Finland and Norway.

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, who chairs the OSCE this year, on Thursday, accused Russia of undermining the European security order with the invasion of Ukraine and promised to keep alive the principles of the organization whose origins are in the dialogue between East and West in the Cold War.

The Russian spy ship was intercepted by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Somerset, as it sailed into the channel and headed north to the North Sea. RFA Proteus, a British multi-role ocean surveillance ship, shadowed the Yantar on Tuesday, according to GPS data captured by the website MarineTraffic.

The operations are part of efforts to protect critical infrastructure including cables in the Baltic Sea - Anadolu Ajansı

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.

China's customs statistics show Finland exporting 621,000 cubic meters of timber to China last year, a 29 percent drop compared to 2023. Russia is China's main source of foreign timber, accounting for two-thirds of the total.

Former Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said he was “annoyed” that Europe is not playing a central role in efforts to engage the Kremlin in discussions on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine. Niinstö, who left office in 2024,