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HELSINKI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Further groups of asylum seekers arrived on Wednesday at Finland’s southeastern border via Russia, part of a sudden surge that the president said appeared to be Russian revenge for his country’s defence cooperation with the United States.

Finland’s government on Tuesday accused Russia of funnelling asylum seekers to crossing points along the frontier and said it might limit access unless Russian authorities reverse course.

He said he believed Russia, which normally stops people without valid EU visas from crossing, had begun letting them through in response to Helsinki’s plans to soon sign a defence cooperation agreement with Washington.

Last year, Finland adopted legislation that would allow crossing points stop receiving asylum applications if they experienced mass immigration orchestrated by another country.

Arrivals are far from mass levels but Finnish Border Guard Lieutenant Colonel Jukka Lukkari said they were rising, with 55 recorded on Tuesday and 66 by Wednesday afternoon; most people crossing are originally from Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and Syria.

Jukka Laine, a border studies professor at the University of Eastern Finland, said Helsinki was overreacting to a Russian attempt to exert pressure, which was just what Moscow wanted.

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