{"id":118798,"date":"2023-11-17T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finland-to-close-border-crossings-with-russia-over-migrant-influx\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:40:45","slug":"finland-to-close-border-crossings-with-russia-over-migrant-influx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/finland-to-close-border-crossings-with-russia-over-migrant-influx\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland to close border crossings with Russia over migrant influx"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118798\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nFinland will close four of its eight eastern border crossings with Russia early Saturday, the government said, accusing Moscow of deliberately turning a blind eye to illegal migrants. The Nordic country, which shares a 1,340-kilometre (830-mile) border with Russia, has since August seen a surge in people being allowed to cross into Finland despite not having proper documentation, primarily nationals from the Middle East and Africa without visas, according to Finland\u2019s border guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the government has made the decision to close the Vaalimaa, Nuijamaa, Imatra and Niirala border crossing points on the land border between Finland and Russia,\u201d Interior Minister Mari Rantanen told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Petteri Orpo accused Russia of acting deliberately to destabilise Finland in response to its NATO adhesion earlier this year. He said there were &#8216;various signs that entering Finland is being aided and encouraged, organised&#8217;. \u201cWe have been prepared for different kinds of actions, malice, by Russia, and therefore this situation doesn\u2019t come as a surprise,\u201d Orpo said.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Moscow warned it would take \u201ccountermeasures\u2026 in tactical and strategic terms\u201d after branding Finland\u2019s decision to join NATO as an \u201cassault on our security\u201d. A total of 280 asylum seekers have arrived at the border since September, the border guard said Thursday. But Rantanen said &#8216;the numbers aren\u2019t an important issue&#8217;. \u201cThis is not a normal question about asylum politics. This is a case of us having indications and information that people are being machinated into Finland,\u201d Rantanen said.<\/p>\n<p>Markku Hassinen, deputy chief of the Finnish border guard, said the migrant influx \u201cposes a serious threat to national security\u2026 burdening the operations of the authorities in the eastern border area\u201d.<br \/>\nThe four crossing points that will close are the southernmost ones located in the most populated regions, with the four situated in rural areas further north remaining open. The crossing points will close at midnight overnight Friday to Saturday until February 18, 2024, with asylum applications to be centralised at two of the four crossing points that will still be open.<\/p>\n<p>While the majority of the illegal crossings have occurred at the southern border points, &#8216;the phenomenon is apparently spreading somewhat to the north already,\u201d Hassinen said. Orpo stressed that \u201cif this situation expands to other border crossing points and becomes more difficult\u2026 we\u2019ll take the necessary measures.&#8217; He didn\u2019t disclose what those measures could be.<\/p>\n<p>Finland, a country of 5.5 million people, is erecting a 200-kilometre fence on one section of its border with Russia that is due to be completed by 2026. At present, Finland\u2019s borders are secured primarily by light wooden fences, mainly designed to stop livestock from wandering to the wrong side. Helsinki\u2019s ties with Moscow have deteriorated since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which prompted Finland to abandon decades of military non-alignment and join NATO amid concerns for its own security. Russia expelled nine diplomats and closed Finland\u2019s consulate in Saint Petersburg on October 1, as a retaliation for Helsinki expelling nine Russian diplomats in July for acting in an \u201cintelligence capacity\u201d. And in May, Finland\u2019s state-owned energy group Fortum said Moscow had taken control over its Russian subsidiary under a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/finland-to-close-border-crossings-with-russia-over-migrant-influx\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/finland-to-close-border-crossings-with-russia-over-migrant-influx\/\">Finland to close border crossings with Russia over migrant influx<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1316,3919,9270,555,586,588],"class_list":["post-118798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-border","tag-close","tag-crossing","tag-csr-news-en","tag-finland","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}