Source link Completely closing the Finland-Russia land border would cost Helsinki up to $3.3 billion, according to Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. He said the Finnish authorities were “punishing” their own citizens and hindering the development of the country by “lowering the Iron Curtain in the east.” “Finnish authorities have closed all checkpoints on […]
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Kremlin responds to talk of ‘new Iron Curtain’ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link The situation will hopefully not reach that point, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said after Finland closed border crossings Finland’s closure of border crossings with Russia and potential similar steps by Norway and Estonia are not yet the modern equivalent of the Cold War’s ‘Iron Curtain’, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on […]