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Estonia considers closing its border with Russia (kyivindependent.com)

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Estonia announced that the country may be forced to close its border crossing points with Russia due to increased migration pressures, Estonian Police and Border Guard announced on Feb. 13.

"In recent weeks, Russia has deliberately directed to the Estonian border groups of foreigners lacking the legal right to enter the European Union," the statement reads. "If these activities continue, we will be forced to close border crossing points to protect national security and public order, as has already been done in Finland due to migration pressure."

The Estonian government has noted an influx of migrants and asylum seekers from Russia over recent months.

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[-] avater@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago

why considering? Close them down, nothing of value in Russia at the moment.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

There are innocent civilians trying to flee Putin's regime. Civilians who want no part of his war. They should be allowed to seek asylum like any refugee.

[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 61 points 7 months ago

Estonia is a tiny country of a little over a million people and we already took on the most Ukrainian refugees per population and we currently have issues housing them. If Russians need refuge in another country they need to look elsewhere.

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[-] avater@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

There are innocent civilians trying to flee Putin’s regime. Civilians who want no part of his war. They should be allowed to seek asylum like any refugee.

Yes they are, but Russia also uses migration as a pervert way of its hybrid warfare to pressure european countries and to create confusion and disarray .

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[-] purplepuppy@links.hackliberty.org 18 points 7 months ago

Are you saying that there is no value in human life if it is someone that lives in Russia?

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[-] purplepuppy@links.hackliberty.org 4 points 7 months ago

Anti-migrant racism is strong in these comments. It is amazing how easily people who consider themselves left-wing turn to racism when it helps them politically.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

You see it all the time in European politics. They'll call themselves leftist and scoff about how right wing American Democrats are while they support awful policies against refugees and migrants. They'll be racist against the Romani and say it's totally different from being racist.

The US may have right wing economics, but Europe has right wing immigration/refugee policies.

[-] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh wow, the situation in Russia is great! Russia is winning the war and nobody feels the sanctions!

Or at least that's what you'd think if you'd listen to the top tankies on Lemmy. Gee, I wonder why there are no refugees from, say, Canada, in Russia, but lots of Russians are fleeing towards the West?

I feel no joy by saying this. This is a tragedy that needs to stop as early as possible. I deplore the existence of the need for Russians to seek asylum in other countries, despite my open condemnations of the actions of the Russian government.

But this is a call to the actual leftists among tankie ranks: stop defending Russia's imperialist war. This is a situation of their own design. They can stop anytime. We can still denounce American imperialism and Israel's ethnic war, it's not an either/or situation.

By defending a dictator, tankies are siding with the evil they like to proclaim they hate (imperialism), in contradiction of the values they claim to have.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago

While I agree with what you say, the article is not talking about Russian citizens, but it's the Russian government being an asshole like Belarus did: they let migrants fly into Russia from Morocco, Kenya or Yemen, then they're pushing them to the Estonian border just to give them pressure. Using innocent people as a destabilizing weapon

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