**”it is important to us to understand that there are a lot of people fleeing from Russia, because they are disagreeing with the Russian regime.”** (c) Olaf Sholz.
From the article, read before commenting:
“**Porsches, Bentleys and other luxury cars with Russian licence plates are filling the parking garage at Helsinki airport as Finland becomes an important transit country for Russian tourists flying to Europe**.
**The EU shut its airspace to Russian planes after Moscow invaded Ukraine, forcing anyone who wants to travel to Europe to drive across the border or take a circuitous route using non-western airlines.**
Since Russia’s Covid-19 restrictions expired in July, there has been a **boom in the number of Russian travellers and a rising backlash in Europe against allowing Russian tourists to enter while the war continues.**
The Finnish foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, said **Finland had become a “transit country” for Russian tourists. “Helsinki airport is seeing a lot of Russian tourism at the moment**,” he added.
**Finland said last week it would limit the number of Russian tourist visas to 10% of current volumes as of 1 September after rising discontent over Russian tourism amid the war in Ukraine.**
Russians continue to enter Finland with **visas issued by other EU countries in the Schengen borderless travel area for their journeys. “They come here on Schengen visas issued by various different countries and then continue further via Helsinki airport**,”
“**Hungary, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece and Spain normally issue visas to Russians, and are generally among the top issuing countries each year**,” said a border guard official.
“As Finland and the Baltic countries are planning to restrict these visas, it would be good if all EU countries took similar decisions,” he added.
Thoughts and opinions are welcome, but just one little insight: **Russians who come in with Bentleys are not the same russians who are fleeing Putin’s regime**.
In a country with GDP/capita below $1000/month, workers and peasants go on vacation in Western Europe, buy Porsche cars worth $100,000. A true Workers’ Paradise it is.
Poor Russian tourists don’t deserve the visa ban. They are just trying to escape a repressive regime. Totally no infiltrators amongst them
this subreddit is full of cherry picking articles (obv majority of the tourists won’t own a Porsche) yet my attempt to send a picture from Moscow protests of 1991 which led to Ukraine/Baltics declaration of independence a few days later is shadowbanned.
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**”it is important to us to understand that there are a lot of people fleeing from Russia, because they are disagreeing with the Russian regime.”** (c) Olaf Sholz.
From the article, read before commenting:
“**Porsches, Bentleys and other luxury cars with Russian licence plates are filling the parking garage at Helsinki airport as Finland becomes an important transit country for Russian tourists flying to Europe**.
**The EU shut its airspace to Russian planes after Moscow invaded Ukraine, forcing anyone who wants to travel to Europe to drive across the border or take a circuitous route using non-western airlines.**
Since Russia’s Covid-19 restrictions expired in July, there has been a **boom in the number of Russian travellers and a rising backlash in Europe against allowing Russian tourists to enter while the war continues.**
The Finnish foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, said **Finland had become a “transit country” for Russian tourists. “Helsinki airport is seeing a lot of Russian tourism at the moment**,” he added.
**Finland said last week it would limit the number of Russian tourist visas to 10% of current volumes as of 1 September after rising discontent over Russian tourism amid the war in Ukraine.**
Russians continue to enter Finland with **visas issued by other EU countries in the Schengen borderless travel area for their journeys. “They come here on Schengen visas issued by various different countries and then continue further via Helsinki airport**,”
“**Hungary, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece and Spain normally issue visas to Russians, and are generally among the top issuing countries each year**,” said a border guard official.
“As Finland and the Baltic countries are planning to restrict these visas, it would be good if all EU countries took similar decisions,” he added.
Thoughts and opinions are welcome, but just one little insight: **Russians who come in with Bentleys are not the same russians who are fleeing Putin’s regime**.
In a country with GDP/capita below $1000/month, workers and peasants go on vacation in Western Europe, buy Porsche cars worth $100,000. A true Workers’ Paradise it is.
Poor Russian tourists don’t deserve the visa ban. They are just trying to escape a repressive regime. Totally no infiltrators amongst them
this subreddit is full of cherry picking articles (obv majority of the tourists won’t own a Porsche) yet my attempt to send a picture from Moscow protests of 1991 which led to Ukraine/Baltics declaration of independence a few days later is shadowbanned.