An IAEA team en route to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

7:31 a.m .: … Finland is already reducing its visas issued to Russians

Bordering Russia, Finland, which processes some 1,000 visa applications per day, has decided to reduce the number of visas issued to Russian tourists to 10% of this volume from September 1.

Since the closure of European airspace in response to the war, more and more Russians are traveling to this border country to transit to other European states with short-stay Schengen visas (90 days per period). 180 days).

For Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, “it is not fair that Russian citizens can enter Europe, the Schengen area, do tourism (…) while Russia is killing people in Ukraine”.