This weekend, however, there was a disturbance. On Sunday, police in the county of Finnmark announced on Twitter that they had "detained four people who threw stones over to Russia." In a subsequent tweet, the police announced that two of these people had acknowledged they were guilty of throwing stones at Russia.

"It is a violation of border law," Thomas Pettersen of the Finnmark Police District told NRK, adding that the act of throwing stones constituted "offensive behavior."

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Norway's 1950 border laws stipulate that no "offensive behavior along the border targeting the adjacent state or its authorities" is allowed. NRK reports that those who break the law could in theory serve up to three months in prison, though police say that generally such offenses are punished with fines.

The perpetrators ranged in age from teenagers to people in their 40s, police said, and they did not live in the area. They had thrown the stones over the Grense Jakobselv, a small creek that forms part of the border that separates the two nations. This area also happens to be near the road closest to the border. The men told police that they had no idea what they were doing was illegal, but there were a number of warning signs nearby that explained the border laws.

"The stone throwing happened in an area where there are several large signs that explain what is allowed and not allowed," Pettersen told NRK.

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It's unclear what prompted the stone throwing. The border has drawn some tensions recently over asylum seekers, thousands of whom have traveled through Russia and over the border to Norway. In January, Russia announced the border was closed for "security reasons" after Norwegian authorities returned some of these migrants and refugees to Russia.