Less Than 100 Border Crossings per Day in February

2,687 border crossings were counted on the Norwegian-Russian checkpoints in February, down 34% year-over-year. Just under 100 border crossings took place on an average day in February, the Norwegian Police in charge of immigration informs. 

With exception of the years of the pandemic, the number of people traveling across the land border between Norway and Russia has not been lower since the days of the Soviet Union, writes the Barents Observer.

At the peak in 2013 the numbers were almost 10 times higher, on average nearly 1,000 people per day, in total 320,000 for the year.