The Turkish President had said last week that his country would “not view positively” the applications of the two countries for membership of the alliance. He confined his criticism to Sweden, which has been welcoming Kurdish refugees.
May 23, 2022The leaders of Finland and Sweden have announced that they back their countries in joining NATO in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
May 17, 2022Finland, which shares a 1,300-km border and a difficult past with Russia, has gradually stepped up its cooperation with Nato as a partner since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014.
May 15, 2022The second India-Nordic summit will see the participation of the Prime Ministers of Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Norway, and will follow up on the first summit that took place in Stockholm, Sweden in 2018.
May 4, 2022Russian energy giant Gazprom has asked the Finnish state-owned energy company Gasum to give a response before May 20 regarding Russia's request to receive payments for gas in rubles.
May 1, 2022Finnish officials say that without Russian gas, Finland will need to search for alternative sources, such as the Baltic Connector pipeline, or reduce production.
May 1, 2022Last week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia has warned Sweden and Finland about the consequences of joining NATO.
April 26, 2022Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong is on a visit there to attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) foreign ministers.
April 7, 2022Finland maintained domestic vaccine production until 2003. Since then Finland has relied on imported vaccines.
December 3, 2021A media representative for Milley was quoted by Finnish national radio as saying that in the meeting the talks continued aiming at "increasing communication and reducing risks".
September 23, 2021Denmark responded well and broke Russia's resistance with goals from Andreas Christensen and Joakim Maehle in the closing stages.
June 22, 2021Russia should have scored more goals but Rifat Zhemaletdinov and Daler Kuzyaev failed to finish the job.
June 16, 2021Both leaders noted that the close relations between India and Finland were based on shared values of democracy, rule of law, equality, freedom of speech, and respect for human rights.
March 16, 2021The painful truth now, however, is that the world can simply not handle what many countries across the world have planned.
May 26, 2020The World Economic Forum had published its first gender gap report in 2006, when India was ranked relatively higher at 98th place. Since then, India's rank has worsened on three of four metrics used for the overall ranking.
December 17, 2019New Zealand has more than 40 per cent women in its House of Representatives (compared with 32 per cent in the UK’s previous Parliament).
December 14, 2019The Prime Minister is in Finland as part of her official trips to three countries. She had earlier visited Japan and Saudi Arabia.
June 7, 2019