lights and loudspeakers will be installed in certain sections of the fence. A 3km pilot project at Imatra is expected to be completed by the end of June, the Border Guard said. Finland passed new ...

The Southeast Finland Border Guard reported on Monday that it had detained a Finnish citizen who crossed the eastern border into Russia and then returned to Imatra. A local Imatra resident had tipped ...

A file photo of the Imatra border. Finland’s land border crossings with Russia have been closed for about a year. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The four parties in Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s ...

In February, Finland began to build a "test section" of a 3-km-long fence on the border with Russia near the Imatra border crossing. The fence will be equipped with technical control systems.

"Russia is accountable for this, including for the people that are being directed towards the Finnish border," Petteri Orpo disclosed on the Yle channel. "Unfortunately, the re-closure of border ...

"In these circumstances, it seems that the construction of a border fence would help defend the territory," Finland’s top diplomat added. "This is a debate that we are having in Finland with the ...