Finland will keep its border with Russia closed until further notice over migration concerns

Are the Russians beating at the border waiting to get in?

I am mystified

Are the Russians beating at the border waiting to get in?

Has anyone claimed they were?

I am mystified

Clearly. Maybe if you tried educating yourself before posting?

I just streamed 2018 Nordic noir TV drama based on a small town in the north of Finland during winter. I know it's a fiction, but what impressed me was i) the area is literally (vast and beautiful) no man's land which seems to make illegal crossing from Russia easy, and ii) as a consequence, gangs are profiting from a trade of smuggled Russian prostitutes (the story line...). Controlling that border must be a quite task.

Part of Putains game

Deliberately try to destabilize Europe from Finland to Moldova.

It's his raison d'etre.

Even in the darkest days of the Cold War, Finland remained neutral but now the see the threat from russia as very serious, hence their actions.

Putin has been pushing middle eastern refugees and Russian spies over the border for a long time. It is hard to tell which Russians are good people running from Russia and which are spies, until after they've done something bad.

Finland can take the steps they feel are necessary.

As for watching the border or controlling it, that's a complex problem. It is similar to the issue that the US and Canada have with their land border (the longest in the world). In parts of ND and Wyoming and Montana, the border is just an imaginary line, but there are sensors on both sides used to "hear" people and vehicles trying to cross the border. There's also wildlife crossing in those areas, so if humans walking across the border can "sound" like some other wildlife (mainly footsteps), then the border patrol would rather assume animals, not humans. I'd imagine the same for the Finnish/Russian border ... er ... except the Russian side isn't going to stop people leaving anymore.