The Swedish Society for Peace and Conflict Resolution activists lowered a neon billboard with a gay sailor on it into the Baltic Sea to scare off Russian submarines, the organization's website said. On a shield made of metal and plastic, which activists call a system ...

The defense ministers of the five Nordic countries - Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland - issued a joint declaration on the need to counter Russia. They called Russia's actions the biggest threat to European security. The declaration speaks of "Russian aggression against Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea." “They showed that they are ready ...