CUT A TREE, BUILD A BORDER.

Over the next five years, the Russian authorities will cut down trees along the Russian-Finnish border and sell the wood in order to pay for better border control there, Rossiiskie vesti reported May 25. Moscow faces ever more problems along its northern borders, Segodnya reported June 2. Because of pollution and a rising tide of illegal immigrants, the Russian authorities are particularly concerned with the demarcation line with Norway.

Japanese Sect Planned to Sell Russian Tanks.