Here you’ll need an umbrella for most of the year - it’s one of the most ‘aquatic’ regions in Russia. Despite the cloudy weather, Karelia is a hot destination for adventurous travelers fond of ...

Finland and Britain on Saturday wrapped up the Northern Axe 25 joint military exercises, one of several early winter drills held by the Northern European nation and attended by NATO allies this year.

In 1940, following its defeat in the so-called Winter War with the Soviet Union, Finland was forced to cede its eastern province of Karelia to Moscow, and the region's Finnish population was summarily ...

Below his snow-dusted shapka hat, Anatoliy Vasiljev's rheumy eyes peer through a pair of fogged-up spectacles. In Rubchoila village, about 80km west of Petrozavodsk, capital of the Russian Republic of ...

Located about 1,000 kilometers from Moscow, the Republic of Karelia prides itself on its forests, which account for 80 percent of its surface area, and its 60,000 lakes. The republic is a popular ...

The boundary snakes through dense forest in Finland's North Karelia region, which is blocked by a fence topped with barbed ...

In 1972, an international team of academics identified a new and terrifying public-health crisis. In a far eastern province of Finland—North Karelia—middle-aged men were dropping dead of heart attacks ...

Petrozavodsk in the mist. Photo CC BY-SA 2.0: Mikhail Kryshen / Flickr. Some rights reserved.At 52, Svetlana Chechil, a member of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party and ...