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Lavrov: We will not accept return of migrants from Norway

Russia will not accept the return of migrants who have travelled from Russia to Norway because they might have given false information, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says.
January 26, 2016

Moscow tells Norway to halt return of asylum seekers

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed Norwegian authorities that FSB border service wants better coordination of the transportations.
January 23, 2016

Campaign group urges bus drivers, police staff and others not to participate in deportations

The group says deporting asylum seekers to Russia without an actual consideration of their individual asylum applications, is a breach of Norway’s Human Rights obligations.
January 23, 2016

”We must talk with Russia to stop migration”

Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini tours Lapland, visits border crossing point to Russia together with top True Finns Party colleagues.
January 23, 2016

Zone for visa-free border crossing expanded

Norway and Russia have agreed to expand the area for visa-free travel for border area residents to include the village of Neiden.
January 22, 2016

Norwegian police detained 15 asylum children in Kirkenes

Norwegian Police Immigration Service collectively detained all remaining 82 persons, including 15 children, at the camp after three migrants left for a nearby church. The children were later released after journalists started to ask questions.
January 22, 2016

“We had to help them”

Merete Eriksson and Eirik Nilsen were arrested by police for helping asylum seekers leave the camp before a planned deportation to Russia.
January 21, 2016

Border citizens with warm support to migrants in freezing cold

They got a glimpse of hope by watching the support demonstration outside the camp near Kirkenes Wednesday evening. Warm support from the locals is however not enough; return to Russia will be carried out.
January 20, 2016

”The migrants must understand that this is dangerous”

Regional authorities are starting to inform migrants about the major risks linked with border-crossing to Finland in the current freezing weather, Murmansk deputy governor says.
January 20, 2016

Quicker visas for Russians

Amid a sharp decline in visa applications and cross-border traveling, Russian northerners will soon be able to obtain travel documents to Norway in only 3 days.
January 20, 2016

Kirkenes-Rune asks Prime Minister to treat refugees with respect

Mayor of Kirkenes says Norway must not violate international laws in its eagerness to send out people that are in desperate situation.
January 19, 2016

Bus with returned asylum seekers on the road towards Murmansk

January 19, 2016

Migrants on return to Russia can get $100 in travel support

The travel cash is enough to cover one-way ticket from Murmansk to Moscow.
January 18, 2016

Migrants on hunger strike

Migrants afraid to be sent from Norway to Russia without food or money have started a hunger strike in a camp close to the border.
January 18, 2016

Man found dead on Arctic migrant route after waiting in a car for five days in temperatures below minus 30

The 33-years old might have frozen to death near the checkpoint where he had been waiting for five days to get to the Finnish border.
January 18, 2016

Russia will accept return of migrants in busses

Norwegian police confirms end of icy-cold cross-border bicycling at Storskog for migrants on return to Russia.
January 14, 2016

Refugees with children walking towards Finnish border in extreme frost

Temperatures were under minus 30 degree Celsius when the group started to walk from Kandalaksha towards Salla.
January 13, 2016

“Asylum stream directed by crime elements"

Lapland Border Guard projects 7,500 asylum seekers or more this year as Finland is now the most attractive destination for asylum seekers among countries bordering Russia to the west.
January 12, 2016

Border traffic drops more to Finland than to Norway

Visa-freedom for residents in Norwegian-Russian border areas compensates for the general sharp drop in border-crossings from Russia’s northwestern regions.
January 11, 2016

Asylum seekers replace bicycles with old Ladas

Dozens of rusty clapped-out Russian cars are piling up at Finland’s Salla border after migrants started to purchase Volgas and Ladas on their route from Russia to Schengen Europe.
January 11, 2016

Finland forbids asylum biking

No asylum seekers have entered Finland on bicycle from the Kola Peninsula since the day before Christmas Eve.
December 27, 2015

Helsinki Committee says Norway’s return of refugees to Russia is risky

National Police Immigration Service will not reveal how many people will be given a bicycle for return to Russia.
December 21, 2015

Norwegians want to give Finland mountaintop

More than 4,000 have signed up in a Facebook campaign aimed at giving the top of Halti Mountain as anniversary present when Finland in 2017 marks 100-years independence.
December 18, 2015

Norway returns children on bicycles in freezing cold

It is snow. It is dark. It is cold. And it is 40 kilometres to the nearest town on Russia’s Kola Peninsula. A family with children was told to leave Norway on bicycles at Storskog this weekend, the coldest so far this winter.
December 14, 2015

Arctic migrant flow, now in reverse

For weeks, big numbers of asylum seekers crossed into Norway from Russia. Now, the migrants are sent back to Russia. By the same bicycles.
December 08, 2015

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