\u0027It is time to end tourism from Russia now,\u0027 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote Tuesday on Twitter that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right” and that it is “time to end tourism from Russia now.”
YLE reported last week that Russian companies have started offering car trips from St. Petersburg to the airports of Helsinki and Lappeenranta in Finland, which have direct connections to several places in Europe. Russia’s second-largest city is about 300 kilometres from the Finnish capital. The issue of visas for Russians will be discussed at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers on Aug. 31, YLE said.Article content
Finland shares a 1,340-kilometre land border with Russia, complete with several crossing points in what is one of the European Union’s longest external borders.
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