Finland is seeing a rise in the number of third-country asylum seekers arriving at its border crossings from Russia and is preparing to "take action" to handle the situation, the Finnish interior minister said on Tuesday.
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    HELSINKI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Finland is seeing a rise in the number of third-country asylum seekers arriving at its border crossings from Russia and is preparing to “take action” to handle the situation, the Finnish interior minister said on Tuesday.

    Russian authorities have changed the way they work to allow travel to Finland despite a lack of documents, which is illegal entry," Minister of Interior Mari Rantanen told reporters.

    Around 60 asylum seekers had arrived from Russia since early on Monday, according to Finland’s border guard authority.

    This contrasts with a total of 91 people arriving without required documents from Aug. 1 to Nov. 12, according to the authority.

    The interior ministry will prepare a proposal that could allow officials to limit border traffic or the closing of some crossing points, Rantanen said.

    (This story has been corrected to fix the sourcing to Finland’s border guard authority, not minister, in paragraph 3)

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