Suspended trains, empty roads, vacant malls: Silence blankets Finland’s border with Russia – For decades, Finland and Russia connected their two countries across a long border. In a matter of weeks, those connections were severed.
Suspended trains, empty roads, vacant malls: Silence blankets Finland’s border with Russia – For decades, Finland and Russia connected their two countries across a long border. In a matter of weeks, those connections were severed.
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> The high-speed train service, known as Allegro, which for years passed here four times a day carrying hundreds of passengers in both directions, had been suspended. In the railside restaurant, border guards rather than international travelers made up what was left of rush hour.
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> “It’s a nightmare,” said Ville Laihia, the son of the owner, from behind the counter. “We spent 20 years building this business and now we’re fighting to survive.”
Reminds me of how badly Point Roberts, Washington’s economy was devastated by the US/Canada border closing. Obviously cutting off Russia is the right call but you gotta feel for the local businesses :/
The government should compensate border communities for the reduced economic activity.
It’s already been that way for two years due to covid, it’s not something that came suddenly.
We should support the residents there but they have to rely on some other business model.
I find it very hard to imagine that we would be opening up the relationship with Russia in decades. For anyone on the border to trust Russia would require w complete change in governance and leaders
I can’t see thisas a good thing, but I blame Putin.
No bad actually
Most of my family are evacuees from Karjala, my grandmother was orphaned by Russia. I will never trust Russia, never have. And I hope our goverment won’t either.
Putin can get in the ground with Jeffrey Epstein.