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Last open land border to Europe for Russian shoppers. But for how long?

 

 

Text og photo:

Elizaveta Vereykina

May 08, 2024

“We keep coming over here because we’ve got used to it. We love these places, we love your [Norwegian] food,” - interviews with Russians who keep coming on shopping tours to Kirkenes, Arctic Norway.

 

WHO THE KING THINKS ABOUT 

 

Two minibuses arrive at the car park of the REMA 1000 supermarket in Kirkenes. 

As soon as the bus doors open, a group of people quickly streams towards the shop entrance. Men and women of different ages rush to take the wire shopping carts. 

“Today I took crab sticks, coffee, cheese, condensed milk, ketchup, nuts, and chocolate. All as usual. I have the same shopping cart every week”, Alexander, a businessman from Murmansk, northern Russia, tells me. Alexander is one of many who regularly come to Kirkenes on buses from Russia with one main purpose - grocery shopping. 

The border with Arctic Russia is just a 20-minute drive from this Norwegian supermarket. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, and for dozens of years, shopping in Norway has been popular among Russians. 

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