just a punk

Indeed, nobody wants to stay in that cold, gloomy and overpriced shithole. But there is still a reason to build a border, because the Middle Eastern migrants use Norway as a launchpad to the normal EU countries. They enter Russia, fly to Murmansk and then cross the Norwegian and Finnish borders. I don't know about now, but just a few years ago, it was easy to get a Russian transit permission if those Arab migrants were able to prove they won't stay here and will go straight to Norway. Perhaps now this breach was closed.

Check this out: FSB: migrants through Norway can bring to the EU the means of terror

This one: Murmansk region is being "besieged" by Middle Eastern migrants traveling to Finland

And this one: Norway began to return refugees refused refugee shelter in Russia

On the other hand, Russia and Norway have a mutual agreement about local movement. This means that locals who live near the Russian-Norwegian border can cross it freely form the both sides. So they build a border to stop Middle Eastern refugees. Will it work? I don't know.

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We have visa free regime with many countries such as the ex-USSR countries, South American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile etc), Cuba, Dominican Republic, Some African countries, Israel, Turkey, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Republic of Seychelles etc, but your country is not in the list.

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