Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkinen (NCP) hosts a meeting with his Nordic counterparts in Helsinki on Thursday. Finland is chair of the Nordic Defence Cooperation group this year, and Thursday's meeting marks its second of the year.

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to broker a peace deal in Ukraine, but as he prepares to take office, peace seems as elusive as ever.

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.

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.

"Ukraine is fighting to defend not only its independence and peaceful future, but also the jointly agreed security order based on international law. As the previous Chairpersonships, Finland will keep support for Ukraine at the heart of the OSCE’s work," she noted.

In this context, the Helsinki University Faculty of Social Sciences is hosting a special event and presentations addressing the ongoing war in Ukraine: How to End the War in Ukraine? Concept Proposal for an Impartial Facilitator and Steps for a Peace Process.

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.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump stepped up the pressure on Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to make a peace deal with Ukraine Wednesday (Jan 22), threatening tougher economic measures if Moscow does not agree to end the war.

Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the ... Oleksandr Pavlichenko, the Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, believes that currently "there is neither a legal ...

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

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

Denmark's energy agency on Tuesday said it had granted Nord Stream 2 AG, a unit of Russia's Gazprom, permission to conduct preservation work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, which was damaged in a series of blasts in 2022.