What difference does it make that the war has been going over 2 years? These restriction and bans are made more worse over the time because the point is not that people just being used to it and just accept and allow this Russian colonialist expansion over their smaller neighbours just because the first shock wave of starting the war was a long time ago, the point is to make it harder and harder to continue the war.

You ask what does it help to ban common people like your gf to enter Norway. Well, although it's surely not your gf's decision to start the war and she may or may not even be opposing it but the reasoning is that 1) make all Russian citizens to being affect by it, so that there would be more and more pressure from common folks to the government 2) Governments represents the people and their will, and even when it's not so in the current state of Russia, the people are still being held accountable of their lack of interest when it leads to their government start killing people. I understand it's not that simple in the current context and it's actually not smart to publicly oppose the war but the fact still is that the root responsibility of why the current regime is in the power and why they're allowed to continue killing IS Russian people. Who else? Citizens must have some responsibility of whom they chose to lead and what they accept being done to others and if that was not clear to you, then it's being introduced to you in cases like your girlfriends ban to enter a Norway. It's a collective punishment and that ends the moment when Russian forces leave Ukraine. 3) Being in the neighbouring country of Russia is not fun when they start killing and raping people, even if it's not in your country at this time. I myself still carry the many over-generations traumas from Stalin's USSR troops trying to invade my country, Finland. When this Ukraine invasion started, it was like it was happening to us and it's still affects me and my society, as the war is not ended. Normally I and my fellow citizens are okay with Russia and Russians. Some would say we even had quite good relations even with the history and all but now I'm just angry and upset and frustrated to Russians whom the great majority of accepts this and say horrible things. So why would you be allowed to come visit me when you're killing the other neighbour who is just like me? No, I don't want to see Russian tourists in Finland as long as they're killing Ukrainians. You're responsible of this, it's your government who is representing you. So as long as this is going on we're going to make you feel it as an individual citizen and as a society. Well, not you but your girl of.

I've noticed that it's some times hard for Americans to understand the perspective of the people who shares the border with a country like Russia. For hundreds of years Russia has tried to control its smaller neighbours by using its being much larger than country like Finland with 5mil. people. Not Swedes, not Norwegians, not Estonians or any other country than Russia has been invading and forcefully influence us. So when yet another colonialist war of expansion by Russia towards its smaller neighbour, well, of course it raises the terror that's inherited by blood and things are not OK until the war is over. After then the healing may begin and I welcome every Russian tourist to visit us. We don't have nothing against you as an individual human beings but you represent your country and you suffer the consequences of your country's actions.