Four of the five European Union countries bordering Russia began turning away Russian tourists at midnight on Monday, saying they should not travel while their country is at war with Ukraine.
Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania imposed new restrictions as Finland decided to remain open, though it has cut back the number of consular appointments available to Russian travellers seeking visas.
On a cold and drizzly Sunday in Narva, an Estonian border town with Russian speakers making up more than 90% of its population, Russian citizens were hurrying to enter before new rules came into place. Less than a tenth of some 4,000 Russians entering Estonia daily are losing the right under the new rules, officials said.
"One country grants a visa, another one denies it. That's certainly not very desirable for the system," Finland's President Sauli Niinisto told reporters in Helsinki last week.
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