Russia Terminates Bilateral Military Inspection Agreement with Finland

According to the Finnish government, the Russian Federation terminated a key military supplement to the Vienna Agreement of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This supplement has allowed the Russian Federation and Finland to inspect each other's military bases. Both countries have focused on inspections of the others' air bases in recent years. This agreement has stood since 2000 and is unique in that Russia does not allow any other nation such access. Now that Russia has terminated the agreement, no other nation has a bilateral inspection access to Russian airbases.