The eastern border is still looming large in the Finnish news agenda, after a partial shutdown of border crossings simply saw the flow of migrants move further north.
Helsingin Sanomat has once again been trawling Arabic-language social media, finding adverts offering journeys from Moscow to the Finnish border for 2,800 dollars. That price apparently includes a lift in a car and a bicycle for the last few hundred metres.
The strong suspicion is that Russia is manipulating the movement of people, even forcing some to go to Finland against their will.
There have been reports that people living legally in Russia have been brought to the border and told to go to Finland. Some of them had not eaten for many hours, by the time they got to the western side of the border.
Ilta-Sanomat asks former military intelligence chief and current MP Pekka Toveri (NCP) about the situation, particularly the claims made by Finns Party presidential candidate Jussi Halla-aho that the migrant flows could be used to conceal Russian special forces or Wagner mercenaries.
Toveri does not believe that to be likely, saying that Russia would endeavour to conceal anyone tasked with sabotage. Sending them to the border currently subject to broad media attention would be an ineffective way to do that.
Meanwhile Pekka Haavisto (Green), another presidential candidate, has criticised the government's handling of the situation in an interview with Iltalehti.
He said that the whole border should have been closed last week, when ministers agreed to close four border crossings. That move just shifted the problem further north, he noted.
Haavisto, a former foreign minister, further suggested that Finland should have sent a diplomatic note to Russia over the crisis.
School holidays
Tampere daily Aamulehti asks education officials in the city what their policy is on term-time holidays for schoolchildren. They are following up on a recent controversy over a school in Espoo's refusal to grant permission for one child to miss school for a foreign holiday.
Happily for Tampere youth, AL finds that there is a presumption in favour of allowing these holidays, but that schools can if necessary talk to parents about the effect of absences on the child's education.
In any case, both officials asked by the paper say an agreed resolution is the best way forward. The worst impact on a child's education would occur if a school refused permission and the family left for a holiday anyway.
Rovanperä's partial gap year
Finland's World Rally champion Kalle Rovanperä surprised the sporting world on Monday, announcing that he would not defend his title.
Instead, the 23-year-old said he would drive "half a season", after having competed in rally driving since he was 11.
"There are a few reasons for that, but the biggest reason is that I’ve been driving rally for a really, really long time," the Dirtfish website quoted him as saying.
"I just found that was a good moment to take a bit of a break, to recharge the batteries and to have a bit of time off to focus on the future and to have more energy and more push in the coming years."
Iltalehti asks the big question prompted by the news, with Rovanperä's manager confirming that he may well do some of his obligatory military service next season.
It can be completed in stages, and it might be split over several years, but Rovanperä does intend to complete his stint in the military.
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