Estonia has no reason to close the border with Russia, but the authorities do not plan to simplify the intersection of border points. This was announced by the portal of the Broadcasting company ERR, with reference to the statement of the Chancellor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country Tarmo Milits.
According to him, the Ministry of the daily and carefully monitors the current points of the Narva, Koydula and Luhamaa. There is no reason to close our checkpoints for this, ”Milits noted.
He tied the formation of many hours on the Russian side with the decision of Finland to close all his border transitions with Russia.
according to the Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs, 8% of the border in Narva are citizens of Finland. In the first seven months of the year, 370,558 people passed through this checkpoint, of which almost 30 thousand were Finnish citizens.
In addition, after stopping the flights of the EU to Russia, many became cheaper to return home through the Estonian checkpoints, which also affects the growth of queues.