{"id":118782,"date":"2023-11-16T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/rise-in-asylum-seekers-from-russia-is-kremlin-act-of-revenge-says-finnish-president\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T07:15:43","slug":"rise-in-asylum-seekers-from-russia-is-kremlin-act-of-revenge-says-finnish-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/rise-in-asylum-seekers-from-russia-is-kremlin-act-of-revenge-says-finnish-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in asylum seekers from Russia is Kremlin act of revenge, says Finnish president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118782\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe Finnish president has vowed to take \u201cvery clear action\u201d over the growing number of asylum seekers arriving from Russia, which he said appeared to be a Kremlin act of revenge for Finland\u2019s cooperation with the US. Sauli Niinist\u00f6\u2019s comments come after the Finnish border guard reported steadily increasing numbers of asylum seekers arriving at border crossing points in south-east Finland in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Russian border guards usually stop people without valid EU visas from crossing into Finland. But on Wednesday Niinist\u00f6 said he believed Russia had started guiding asylum seekers towards Finnish crossing points in retaliation for Helsinki\u2019s plans to sign a defence cooperation agreement with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries share a 830-mile border, which also acts as the EU\u2019s external border. Since Finland\u2019s Nato accession earlier this year, tensions between the two countries have become increasingly strained. Finnish security services recently warned of increased online espionage attempts from Russia since Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see the border traffic ending in any other way than with very clear Finnish action,\u201d Niinist\u00f6 said at a press conference in Bonn. The border guard said that as of 6pm local time, 74 asylum seekers arrived at the border in south-east Finland on Wednesday. On Tuesday the number was 55 and on Monday it was 39.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling previous comments, he said that Finland should be prepared for a \u201ccertain malice\u201d from Russia after joining Nato. \u201cYes, we are now constantly being reminded every day that Finland joined Nato. I think that this time, maybe it was the DCA [defence cooperation agreement] that triggered the situation,\u201d he said. He supports government plans to enable traffic at the border to be restricted, adding: \u201cYes, I now understand that it won\u2019t end on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry, dismissed Niinist\u00f6\u2019s statement as \u201cabsolutely groundless\u201d. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, said Moscow deeply regretted Finland\u2019s decision to distance itself from what it described as previously good bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the border guard banned people from crossing the border by bike in reaction to \u201cforeigners travelling from Russia to Finland by bicycle, without adequate travel documents for entering the Schengen area\u201d. It comes after Finland adopted legislation last year that would allow crossing points to stop receiving asylum applications in the event of mass immigration orchestrated by another country. The Finnish Refugee Council said the right to seek refuge should be respected, regardless of where applicants came from or how they accessed the border.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/16\/finland-russia-border-asylum-seekers-us-defence-agreement-sauli-niinisto\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/rise-in-asylum-seekers-from-russia-is-kremlin-act-of-revenge-says-finnish-president\/\">Rise in asylum seekers from Russia is Kremlin act of revenge, says Finnish president<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3754,12275,588,2703,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-118782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asylum","tag-kremlin-act","tag-russia","tag-sauli-niinisto","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}