About border.report

Screening at the Russian border is not uniform. Two people crossing the same checkpoint on the same day can have completely different experiences, and what happened last month at one crossing tells you little about what happens tomorrow at another. Accounts are scattered across chat groups, comment threads and private messages, where they are hard to find and impossible to compare.

border.report collects those accounts in one place and groups them by checkpoint, so a pattern can become visible: which crossings are inspecting devices, what people are being asked, how long the queue actually is.

What this is not

• Not legal advice. Nothing here tells you what you are entitled to do or refuse. Laws and enforcement differ, and they change.
• Not a live feed. Reports are written after the fact. A crossing that was calm yesterday can be difficult today.
• Not verified. These are self-reported accounts from anonymous people. We filter for spam and personal data, not for truth. Read the sample sizes.

Reading the statistics honestly

Every rate on a checkpoint page comes with the number of reports it is based on. Below five reports the page says so explicitly. People who had a difficult crossing are more likely to write about it than people who were waved through in ninety seconds, so treat the rates as an upper bound on how bad things are, not as a measured probability.

Mirroring

Everything published here is available at /api/v1/export.json and /feed.xml. If this domain becomes unreachable, that data can be rehosted by anyone.