OREANDA-NEWS  The closure of the border with Russia has hit the economy of Finnish border towns due to the loss of Russian tourists, said Henrik Nielsen, a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. Yle writes about this.

"Many localities, such as Imatra, have been economically severely affected by the closure of the border," he stressed. As the expert pointed out, before the coronavirus pandemic, tourists from Russia brought several hundred million euros a year to Finnish settlements.

Earlier, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said that opening the border with Russia depends on solving the problem of migrants.