Contents tagged with Russian border

  • Estonia approves €190 million construction project of the border with Russia

    The Estonian Government finally approved the €190 million construction project on the border with Russia, ERR news outlet reports. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2026. Estonia had decided in 2015 to modernize the infrastructure of its border by constructing sections of fencing, patrol path, barriers to animals, gates, border markers and the like, but had not gotten budget approval for a long time.

    “We will immediately start calling for bids for the construction of four parts of …

  • Russia prepares to close the border with Belarus to foreign transport

    Russia intends to change the border-crossing rules for long-distance truck drivers of the third countries entering its territory from Belarus, reports DW.

    At the end of July, Russian border guards received instructions how to implement additional control measures. They were obliged to stop drivers with any passports from entering the territory of Russia, except for Russian and Belarusian.

    However, on the night of August 1, an order was issued not to apply new measures. An introduction of this …