The move comes after Finland’s state energy company failed to comply with Moscow’s ruble payment demand Russia has halted natural gas deliveries to Finland after state energy wholesaler Gasum failed to make a required payment in rubles, the Finnish gas system operator Gasgrid Finland said on Saturday. “Gas imports through Imatra entry point have been stopped,” the statement read. Russia’s... 

Helsinki would strengthen NATO and bring a lot of “added value” to the US-led military alliance, Finnish Minister for European Affairs Tytti Tuppurainen claimed in an interview with Sky News on Saturday. Finland’s push for NATO membership, which has been galvanized by the Ukraine crisis, is “about our own resistance” and freedom of “national movement maneuver,” Tuppurainen said. She... 

Moscow is threatening Finland with a response  of some kind (invasion) but the problem is that Moscow can’t even conquer Ukraine alone, yet now they think they can conquer both Ukraine and Finland at the same time? This is hilarious Moscow has warned that Finland joining NATO would pose a direct threat to Russia’s security and its acceptance to the military alliance would prompt Russia to... 

Russian state TV has accused the US of erecting a ‘new iron curtain’ in Europe in a furious response to Finland announcing its intention to join NATO. This morning, president Sauli Niinisto and prime minister Sanna Marin said they want to join the security alliance ‘without delay’, with Sweden set to follow suit within days, drastically ramping up tensions between Russia and... 

The vast majority of Austrians are against becoming part of NATO, a poll has revealed. In a survey conducted earlier this month by Vienna’s Institute for Opinion Polls and Data Analysis and commissioned by the Austria Press Agency, 75% of respondents replied in the negative when asked if they thought their country should join NATO, with another 14% in favor of such a scenario. Of the 1,000 Austrians... 

The prime ministers of Sweden and Finland, Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin, both signaled Wednesday that they will likely be applying for membership in NATO. The “prospect” is most “welcome,” says The Washington Post: “Finland and Sweden Should Join NATO.” The editorial was titled “A Way to Punish Putin.” Before joining the rejoicing in NATO capitals, we might inspect what NATO... 

Vladimir Putin today warned his enemies in the West they will face ‘consequences’ if they ‘worsen the situation’ in Ukraine, as the Russian strongman threatened to create endless ‘waves of migrants’ in Europe of women! Putin, speaking in front of dozens of rockets at the Vostochny space launch facility in Russia’s Far East, insisted that his faltering invasion... 

A key opposition party in Sweden will reportedly look to switch its stance on whether the country should join NATO, if neighboring Finland applies for membership. Such a move would potentially clear the way for legislation to end the country’s long history of military neutrality. Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson told Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet on Saturday that he’s considering the... 

The president of Finland, which borders Russia, has claimed that the widespread support for NATO membership expressed in recent opinion polls could pave the way for joining the US-led military bloc without a referendum. The attitude of the Finns towards NATO membership took a U-turn following Moscow’s attack on Ukraine. “NATO needs to know that there is popular support. We already have that,... 

Well it looks like the Ukraine war might not be about land grab or Putin being crazy after all… this latest Russian threat actually tells us what’s inside Putin’s head. He simply put his foot down and said that’s enough, no more NATO around me, enough is enough…. and can we really blame him for that? The simple answer is NO… NATO did expand too much without taking... 

Finland’s former interior minister has gone on trial in Helsinki accused of inciting anti-LGBT+ hate speech. Päivi Räsänen, an MP of the Christian Democrats party, is accused of describing homosexuality as a “disorder of psychosexual development” and labelling homosexuals as “dysfunctional”. The charges relate to comments posted on Twitter in 2019 in which she criticised the Finnish Lutheran... 

Finland has decided it will pause rolling out Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine to men born in 1991 and later due to concerns about the rare side effect of heart inflammation post-inoculation, following Nordic nations Sweden and Denmark. Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, the director of Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare, Mika Salminen, announced Helsinki’s halt on offering... 

Caving under pressure from small but inordinately powerful international Jewish groups, lawmakers in Finland removed language that would have banned non-medical circumcision of boys from a proposed bill on female genital mutilation: The measure calling to “clarify” Finland’s ban on the genital mutilation of women passed Friday in the Parliament. Amendments would have potentially limited or outlawed... 

Finland’s Supreme Court rejected an attempt by a “neo-Nazi” movement to overturn a state prohibition on its activities in the country, and by doing so effectively ruled that any organized opposition to Jewish power and supremacy is illegal: The ruling upheld an earlier decision, which banned the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), following a recommendation by the National Police Board,... 

Predictions about the end of the European project have long been bandied about in the corridors of power and in newspaper columns. However, one Finnish MEP has joined the long list of those making the claim that the end may be on the horizon. The European Union is on track to “inevitably” collapse due to increasing concerns over the bloc’s plan to further centralise power in Brussels, a Finnish...