TROUBLE AT THE BORDER: Pretty much the entire last week (as well as this week) have been dominated by trouble at the Finnish borders, namely an influx of new asylum applicants arriving through Russia. This has been widely regarded as a hybrid warfare op
I googled 'Raja-Jooseppi' and got a bunch of photos of hundred-year-old log cabins in some beautiful forest overlooking a mountain lake. Gorgeous view, but one that seems a bit more "summer camp haunted by a ghost" than "Syrian refugee" to me.
Googling it, I got presumably the same houses, and it turns out that it's the original house of the person called "Raja-Jooseppi" ("Joseph-on-the-Border") who the border crossing is named after. A hardy settler, 100 years ago.
Thanks for the update, was wondering what the perspective on the migrant crossings was domestically.
I googled 'Raja-Jooseppi' and got a bunch of photos of hundred-year-old log cabins in some beautiful forest overlooking a mountain lake. Gorgeous view, but one that seems a bit more "summer camp haunted by a ghost" than "Syrian refugee" to me.
Googling it, I got presumably the same houses, and it turns out that it's the original house of the person called "Raja-Jooseppi" ("Joseph-on-the-Border") who the border crossing is named after. A hardy settler, 100 years ago.
As a settler, I'd describe him as borderline.