This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://yle.fi/news/3-12634328) reduced by 71%. (I’m a bot)
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> Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto announced on Wednesday that Finland is urgently seeking a solution to restrict the issuing of tourist visas to Russian citizens.
> Although Finland reduced the number of tourist visas granted to Russians considerably, not all countries have followed suit.
> On Monday, Finland appealed to the European Commission to issue an EU-wide recommendation that would restrict the entry of Russian citizens into EU countries under tourism visas.
Just can’t understand how restricting visas will help in this situation? Many men are trying to run across the border to avoid mobilization and, as a result – killing people. You want real help — refuse Russian gas purchase and ban Rosatom. All these talks about closing a border are so hypocritical.
Restricting entry for Russians into the EU will only help Putin.
I fail to see how one can motivate these restrictions with anything but pure spite.
My dad is Finnish and my mom is Russian. I live elsewhere in the EU, but I’m visiting my dad in Imatra this week. There’s a three hour long line on the border at Svetogorsk, mostly consisting of Russians escaping mobilization. One of my mates just crossed the border this morning, he is a successful doctor in St. Petersburg who received summons to head a medical post with the army in Ukraine. Like many middle class Russians from the big cities, he has a tourist visa. What’s the worst thing he can do? Buy EUR 500 worth of fishing supplies at Motonet?
Closing the border means sending this guy to war. Leaving the border open means that you weaken the Russian war machine, bit by bit, with every man who manages to escape. It’s ridiculous to think that by keeping dissenters in, you increase the chance that the regime will be overthrown. And I just cannot see how this helps the Ukrainian effort in any way.
Russia may be running out of soldiers, but it’ll never run out of cops and prison space.
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://yle.fi/news/3-12634328) reduced by 71%. (I’m a bot)
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> Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto announced on Wednesday that Finland is urgently seeking a solution to restrict the issuing of tourist visas to Russian citizens.
> Although Finland reduced the number of tourist visas granted to Russians considerably, not all countries have followed suit.
> On Monday, Finland appealed to the European Commission to issue an EU-wide recommendation that would restrict the entry of Russian citizens into EU countries under tourism visas.
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Just can’t understand how restricting visas will help in this situation? Many men are trying to run across the border to avoid mobilization and, as a result – killing people. You want real help — refuse Russian gas purchase and ban Rosatom. All these talks about closing a border are so hypocritical.
Restricting entry for Russians into the EU will only help Putin.
I fail to see how one can motivate these restrictions with anything but pure spite.
My dad is Finnish and my mom is Russian. I live elsewhere in the EU, but I’m visiting my dad in Imatra this week. There’s a three hour long line on the border at Svetogorsk, mostly consisting of Russians escaping mobilization. One of my mates just crossed the border this morning, he is a successful doctor in St. Petersburg who received summons to head a medical post with the army in Ukraine. Like many middle class Russians from the big cities, he has a tourist visa. What’s the worst thing he can do? Buy EUR 500 worth of fishing supplies at Motonet?
Closing the border means sending this guy to war. Leaving the border open means that you weaken the Russian war machine, bit by bit, with every man who manages to escape. It’s ridiculous to think that by keeping dissenters in, you increase the chance that the regime will be overthrown. And I just cannot see how this helps the Ukrainian effort in any way.
Russia may be running out of soldiers, but it’ll never run out of cops and prison space.