Was reacting to this part of the article because I felt like the german dude talked about tourist visas enough and because if personal experiences

What will happen to those Russian students who have already started studying in Estonia, when the annual grace period ends? Applying for asylum is cumbersome and time-consuming. Why can't we allow them to stay longer in Estonia?

On a case-by-case basis you could ask that about every individual, but the fact remains that the cabinet made the decision today, for sure based on human consideration, and the decision is that if focuses on the year and the point.

I think it's reasonable for people to take a yearly perspective. As the Minister of the Interior said, if there are objective circumstances whereby one individual is at risk of persecution, his or her case will be processed separately.

Such cases could build up considerably if, for instance, students protest the war

There can be such cases, right, this has been appreciated. But the fact that they are simply a citizen of the Russian Federation is certainly not a basis for granting political asylum in isolation. The real danger we have right now, in my view, is that we have hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens moving around, and we are in danger of this overpopulation of Russian citizens traveling o and fro here which makes it actually so difficult for us to monitor the situation from a security point of view, and second, this is also morally, I think

It’s just that I know Russian students in my country who applied for a visa extension and were denied on the basis of not granting visas to Russians. I know Czechia is not Estonia it’s just sad..