Tohmajärvi, Finland, Feb 25, 2026 (AFP) - Economy not Russia is big fear on Finland's closed frontier

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A deserted cafe and petrol station near the Niirala border crossing to Russia shows how life has been on hold since Finland shut the frontier with its giant neighbour in December 2023. Helsinki had accused Moscow of "hybrid warfare" in orchestrating a surge of 1,300 migrants across the border -- a charge the Kremlin denied. But it was more the economic rather than the military fallout that worried locals AFP talked to in the border region of Nort......

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