Kotka, Finland News

Despite the recession, Russian entrepreneurs continue to invest in Finnish border towns such as Lappeenranta Despite the global economic crisis, Russian entrepreneurial activity in Finnish border territories, close to St.

This is no high-tech operation. A steel netting is placed around a gas pipe, and the pipe is coated in concrete.

Nurminen Logistics has raised 15m through the sale of its warehousing facilities to Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company as part of a new financing arrangement.

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Arkhangelsk is an inhospitable port city on the White Sea, in Russia's far north, not far from the Arctic Circle .

US soldiers in the Gulf of Suez raided a freighter that was apparently shipping arms from Iran to Syria or Hizbullah in early October, German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported on its Web site on Monday.

There's a full moon tonight, Sunday an apt lead-in to this week's Claire de Lune music festival in Lynden.

It's one of the biggest maritime puzzles since the Mary Celeste. In July a Russian-crewed cargo ship vanished off the coast of Finland.

Russian prosecutors found no suspicious materials on the ship Arctic Sea despite media reports it was carrying the advanced S-300 missile defense for Iran, Russian newswires reported on Saturday.

Russia's foreign minister is rejecting speculation that a hijacked Russian-crewed freighter was carrying S-300 missiles possibly destined for Iran.

In this Dec. 29, 2008, photo, the Arctic Sea, a Russian-crewed freighter, is seen in Kotka, Finland.

Finnish baker Vaasan said in a statement Monday it had started a round of statutory cooperation procedure talks in Kotka in southeastern Finland, citing falling demand.

A top European Union official says that the cargo ship Arctic Sea that disappeared in the waters off of Portugal in late July was secretly carrying Russian missiles bound for the Middle East but was intercepted by Israel.

It's a familiar sight. Forest giant Stora Enso's CEO Jouko Karvinen talkign with a sour look on his face about the closure of factories and paper machines in Finland.

In this Dec. 29, 2008 photo the cargo ship the Arctic Sea is seen in Kotka, Finland.

The cargo ship Arctic Sea in Kotka, Finland, in December. The defense minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, said in remarks broadcast on Russian television that the crew was safe and was being questioned by Navy officials aboard another ship.

The cargo ship Arctic Sea is shown in Kotka, Finland, in this Dec. 29, 2008, photo.

29, 2008, file photo the cargo ship the Arctic Sea is seen in Kotka, Finland. The Russian-manned cargo ship vanished last month in the Atlantic, but was found near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials.

In this Dec. 29, 2008 file photo the cargo ship the Arctic Sea is seen in Kotka, Finland.

In this Dec. 29, 2008 photo the cargo ship the Arctic Sea is seen in Kotka, Finland.