More from: Borders

Lapland border restriction causes problems for Barents cooperation

Foreign businessmen, journalists and researchers, like the participants in the Calotte Academy, have to drive an extra seven and a half hour detour after Russia and Finland agreed to close Lapland borders for third country citizens.
April 06, 2016

Storskog border traffic down 13 percent

Chief of Police at Norway's border checkpoint to Russia, Stein Kristian Hansen, counts less travellers than last year, but there are still many more than before visa-freedom was introduced in the Norwegian-Russian border area.
April 04, 2016

Russia seals border for migrants

Every loophole must be closed off, Putin says to his top national security brass.
April 01, 2016

Migrants aimed for Norway, were stopped by FSB

Two groups of migrants were promised sea transportation from Murmansk to Norway by traffickers. Instead they ended up with fines and expulsion from Russia.
March 30, 2016

Finland, Russia close border for third-country citizens

For the next 180 days, only citizens of Finland and Russia will be allowed to make it over the countries' two northernmost border-crossing points. This is in accordance with our EU commitments, which is to close new illegal immigration routes, Finnish President Niinistö says.
March 23, 2016

Construction work restarted on cross-border road

New year with new cash. Excavators and dump trucks are back in business again on Russia’s road towards the Norwegian border.
March 17, 2016

Russian migration boss about deal with Finland

«We held several meetings with our Finnish colleagues, and that helped us remove the tension which had erupted on our common border», head of the Russian Migration Service says.
March 10, 2016

Migrants on Arctic transit route have returned to Moscow

One week without any asylum seekers to Finnish Lapland.
March 07, 2016

Doors closed on Arctic migrant route

Russia’s FSB Border Guard Service does no longer let migrants cross the border to Finnish Lapland.
March 04, 2016

Finland wants Nordic cooperation in returning rejected asylum seekers

Finland’s Interior Minister Petteri Orpo is calling for Nordic cooperation in sending rejected asylum seekers back to their home countries.
March 03, 2016

Traffic continues decline across border

February was not a crowded month at the Russian-Norwegian border.
March 02, 2016

Putin orders FSB to strengthen control over refugees in transit to Europe

Murmansk police arrests organiser of human trafficking, but the number of asylum seekers to Finnish Lapland remains high.
February 29, 2016

On Arctic migrant route, transit point Kandalaksha

More than 200 migrants are waiting in the northern Russian town for their turn to cross the border to Finland.
February 24, 2016

Cross-border Nordic policing

Swedish police units could be dispatched to neighbouring countries in the Nordic region if they happen to be closer to an incident starting next year, according to Sweden’s Minister for Home Affairs Anders Ygeman.
February 22, 2016

Norway resumes transportation of asylum seekers to Russia

Migrants who came to Norway from Russia across the border-crossing point at Storskog last autumn and winter, are now being sent to Moscow and St. Petersburg by plane.
February 18, 2016

Niinistö, Medvedev discussed Arctic migrant route

«Previously, it was not possible for people without visas to make it to the Russian-Finnish border», Finnish President Sauli Niinistö told Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev.
February 17, 2016

Minister hints tax on cross-border shopping

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov says goods brought across the border by private persons and for private consumption could become subject to taxation.
February 16, 2016

Frontex deploys guest officers at Lapland borders

The first guest officers from other Schengen countries came to Finland’s northern border checkpoints to Russia on Monday.
February 15, 2016

Border traffic continues decline

Police superintendent in charge of the Norwegian border post at Storskog, Stein Kristian Hansen, sees less people crossing over from the Russian Borisoglebsk checkpoint.
February 05, 2016

Russia opens borders for migrants with residence permits

Russia is willing to take some asylum seekers back from Norway. But they have to be sent by plane, not via Storskog.
February 03, 2016

Russia will abolish Rosgrantitsa

The agency responsible for border infrastructure will be dissolved and its functions transferred to the Ministry of Transport.
February 03, 2016

In Murmansk, Nordic visa centers merge

Need a new visa to Norway or Finland? Soon, you can apply to both countries on the same spot.
February 02, 2016

Russia among top three recipients of rejected migrants from Norway

Russia is one of the countries that have received the highest numbers of people that Norway has rejected giving asylum to.
January 29, 2016

Local Norwegians love traveling to Russia

Inhabitants in the border town of Kirkenes on average visited neighboring Russia two times in 2015.
January 28, 2016

Over 1000 refugees crossed Finnish-Russian border in the north

As Finnish and Russian authorities are discussing how to curb the flow of asylum seekers across their common border, the number of people entering Finnish Lapland from Murmansk Oblast is reaching new records.
January 28, 2016

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