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17 paź 2016 · According to the 2010 Russian census, there are about 60,000 Karelians in Russia. Approximately 10,000 Karelians live in Finland. Others are scattered around Belarus and the Baltic states.
The Karelian question or Karelian issue (Finnish: Karjala-kysymys, Swedish: Karelska frågan, Russian: Карельский вопрос) is a dispute in Finnish politics over whether to try to regain control over eastern Karelia and other territories ceded to the Soviet Union in the Winter War and the Continuation War.
In Russia, Karelians mostly live in the Republic of Karelia, where they are the designated ethnic group, and in other adjacent north-western parts of the country. They traditionally speak the Karelian language and are Eastern Orthodox Christians.
After the defeat of the Red Finns in the 1918 Finnish civil war, there was an influx into Soviet Russia of Finnish Communists.3 Like other educated Finns of their day, their leaders saw East or Russian Karelia (Itai-Karjala, "Far Karelia" [Kauko-Karjala] or "Karelia-beyond-the border" [rajantakainen Karjala]) as an inalienable part of Finnish
The current chapter outlines the milestones of the history of Karelians, with the focus on the millennial political developments that have defined the fate of their language, including its documentation and cultivation, which have been heavily influenced by Finnish and Russian nationalism.
World War. The closure of the state border has promoted the periph-eralization of the Russian as well as the Finnish sides of Karelia, and has deprived the region of any specific features of its own (cf. Paasi, 1996; Eskelinen, 1996). The Karelian question, more particularly, refers to the Karelia of
5 lis 2015 · Despite years of proximity and close contacts with Russians, the Tver Karelians are struggling to preserve their native language, culture, customs and traditions. Anna Dovgal
