Would like to stress that the discussion about “good vs bad Russians” gets us nowhere. Border guards can’t make decisions based on such ambiguous moral criteria. The conditions for entry must be legally clear.
Asylum can be granted if the individual legal case warrants it.
Asylum can be granted if the individual legal case warrants it.
Example: on Saturday, the Finnish border guard caught 4 people illegally crossing the border from Russia. They applied for asylum. Both an investigation on the illegal border crossing and an asylum procedure has been initiated.
raja.fi/-/neljan-henki…
raja.fi/-/neljan-henki…
According to Finland’s ministry of the interior, so far this year the number of asylum applications from Russia have been within average (400 this year, normally 200-500 in the past years).
https://twitter.com/Sisaministerio/status/1573219724019830784
Although traffic from Russia to Finland has increased substantially since the announcement of the mobilisation (there are queues at the border - but still not 35km), number of asylum applications has not gone up so far
(Orange line = incoming 🇷🇺 citizens, white line = outgoing)
(Orange line = incoming 🇷🇺 citizens, white line = outgoing)
https://twitter.com/rajavartijat/status/1574374306192269313
Update: newest numbers in. Last week, 59 Russian citizens applied for asylum in Finland. More might do so later somewhere else in Europe. Some increase since Wednesday, and a common reason is fear of being drafted to Ukraine.
yle.fi/uutiset/3-1263… #uutisvahti
yle.fi/uutiset/3-1263… #uutisvahti
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