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Finland has opened up its national airspace to NATO aircraft to run intelligence and surveillance missions along its border with Russia to monitor military activity. Today, a United States Air Force and United Kingdom Royal Air Force RC-135 "Rivet Joint" both carried out ISR missions over the Baltics, with the American aircraft continuing north along the Russian-Finnish border. This...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that Turkey will ratify Finland’s membership request to NATO, stating that it is expected to be completed before elections in May. Sweden, however, will still have to wait as Turkey continues to block their bid, citing the country’s’ policies towards Kurdish fighting and political groups that Turkey views as terrorist organizations. Sweden has long...

On Tuesday the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, during a press conference in Hungary, said that “If the two countries (Sweden and Finland) want to follow a separate procedure, we said that we look at Finland more positively.” Last week the Finish Foreign Minister, Pekka Haavisto, indicated that his country would consider joining NATO without their western neighbor. But on...

The Swedish Foreign Minister, Tobias Billstrom, announced that his country would be suspending their bid to join NATO. This comes after Erdogan suspended talks after increased discontent formed between Turkey and Sweden over what Turkey called “anti-turkey and Islamophobic protests by PKK supporters” in Stockholm. The Swedish Foreign Minister went on to say that his nation still hopes they can join the...

Finnish policy makers have tentatively approved Finnish Border Guard plans to construct a 130-260km border fence between their country and Russia. The border fence will stretch across Southeastern Finland where major routes connect St. Petersburg, Russia and Helsinki, Finland. However, the Border Guard did not propose to create a border fence over the entire 1,300km border with the Russian...