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.

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.

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.

Crew on board an oil tanker accused of sabotaging undersea power and communications cables in the Baltic Sea were poised to cut other cables and pipelines when Finnish authorities boarded the vessel last month,

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.

Identifying suspect ships and limiting their activities is the most efficient way to protect critical undersea infrastructure, European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen told Reuters on Monday.

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

According to the review, Finland is not currently being targeted by exceptional information influence and is not a primary target of Russia. Kremlin influence efforts concentrate on threatening and inflammatory rhetoric about supporting Ukraine and Nato, the report says.

Any conversation between the two would mark the first time a sitting U.S. president and Putin have spoken since the war in Ukraine began, although former President Joe Biden held phone calls with Putin multiple times in the leadup to Moscow's invasion to urge Putin against it.