Helsinki1mon
Invisible borders deny refugees access to protection, rights, and integration
where refugees face pushbacks and closed borders and are often denied access to asylum procedures, mirrors recent challenges in the treatment of refugees at the Finnish-Russian border. Despite ...
Yahoo1mon
Attempts to smuggle sanctioned goods from Finland to Russia persist despite closed border – Finnish media
The number of such violations decreased in 2024 following the closure of the Finnish-Russian border, but they persist nonetheless. More than half of the violations are minor and resolved through a ...
Radio Canada International1mon
20 percent decline in border traffic YoY
A reason for higher traffic in December includes Russians living in Finland who drive north via Norway’s checkpoint, as all road checkpoints along the Finnish-Russian border is closed.
english.nv1y
Moscow trying to recruit migrants seeking asylum in Finland for espionage
Previously, the average flow of migrants was less than one per day. Finnish President Sauli Niinistö believes that an artificial migration crisis at the Finnish-Russian border organized by Moscow is ...
TASS1y
Lux Express to launch bus service from St. Petersburg to Helsinki on December 13
From December 14 to January 14, six out of eight checkpoints on the Finnish-Russian border will be closed, cargo traffic through Vainikkala station will continue, the statement says ST. PETERSBURG ...
TASS2y
Russia’s museum exhibits detained on Finnish border due to bureaucracy
TASS/. The detention of Russian museum exhibits on the Finnish-Russian border is due to the need for additional bureaucratic procedures, Russia’s special presidential representative for ...