WATCH: Finland to reseal entire border with Russia over new influx in migrants

Interior Minister Mari Rantanen told reporters that temporarily reopening was a trial to see whether the migrant “phenomenon” still exists at the border.

In Summary

• Finland’s government has decided to seal again, effective Friday, the Nordic country’s entire eastern frontier due to a continuing influx of migrants at the two crossing points on the border with Russia that were reopened on a temporary basis early Thursday.

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