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The Finnish Border Guard (FBG, [1] Finnish: Rajavartiolaitos, RVL; [2] Swedish: Gränsbevakningsväsendet, GBV) [3] is the agency responsible for enforcing the security of Finland's borders. It is a military organisation, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in administrative issues and to the president of Finland in issues pertaining to ...
“Finland takes care of its own border security and the Finnish Border Guard is ready to quickly implement new decisions of the Government,” the border guard added. Finland shares an 830-mile ...
Finnish border guards and soldiers began erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia to ...
Finland early on Saturday closed four crossings on its border with Russia as Helsinki seeks to halt a flow of asylum seekers it says was instigated by Moscow. The Finnish Border Guard on Friday ...
The Finnish Border Guard said on Friday it suspects four Russian military planes violated the Nordic country's airspace on June 10. On Monday, Finland's defence ministry said it suspected a ...
In addition, the Finnish Border Guard conducts irregularly scheduled dog patrols multiple times daily to catch illegal entries into the border zone. In the Arctic region, Russia maintains its 500-year-old border patrol, with plans to upgrade Soviet-era technologies to reduce costs and improve efficiency by 2020. [needs update]
The Border and Coast Guard Academy (Finnish: Raja- ja merivartiokoulu, Swedish: Gräns- och sjöbevakningsskolan) is a nationally and internationally networking institution for border security and maritime SAR education and research within the Finnish Border Guard. The activities of the Border and Coast Guard Academy are divided between two ...
The Finnish Border Guard says migrants have in the past days arrived mainly from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Turkey and Somalia, and nearly all have arrived at the border zone on bicycles that Finnish and ...