[HIGHLIGHTS] Russia border closed - or pushback: Finland's new president sees the right to asylum as a relic

Russia border closed - or pushback: Finland's new president sees the right to asylum as a relic. The new law is an instrument that allows the border to be opened.

The regional department of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, together with Finland's Red Cross, the Refugee Council and the Finnish UN Association, also criticized the move. “In the worst case scenario,” the approach could lead to a ‘humanitarian crisis,’ they said on Wednesday (March 27). A dangerous precedent is also conceivable.