The 2017 Republic of Karelia head election took place on 10 September 2017, on common election day. Acting Head Artur Parfenchikov was elected for his...

Republic of Karelia, Karjala or Karelia (Russian: Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karelian: Karjala) is a republic of Russia situated in the northwest of the country...

District to a Karelian family. From 1964 to 1968 he was a carpenter at the Vidlinsky production site of the Ilyinsky sawmill. Since 1968, the head of the organizational...

The 2022 Republic of Karelia head election took place on 9–11 September 2022, on common election day. Incumbent Head Artur Parfenchikov was re-elected...

Карелии) or Karelian Republican Movement (Finnish: Karjalan Tasavallan Liike; Karelian: Karjalan Tazavallan Liike) or RMK was a Karelian regionalist and...

Парфе́нчиков; Karelian: Artur Parfenčikov, born November 29, 1964) is a Russian politician serving as Head of the Republic of Karelia since February 2017. Parfenchikov...

The idea of Karelian separatism is currently supported by the Republican Movement of Karelia and the Karelian National Movement. The Karelian National Movement...

to Finland was permitted. Karelian evacuees established an interest group, the Finnish Karelian League, to defend Karelian rights and interests and to...

Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of Vyborg Bay, 130 km (81 miles) northwest of St. Petersburg...

European countries join. The 2004 Ukrainian presidential election was controversial. During the election campaign, opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko was...

a full-scale invasion into Ukraine. In 2014 Varlamov became head of Maxim Katz’s election headquarters during his run for Moscow City Duma in the #5 single-mandate...

dacha in Solovyovka on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the Karelian Isthmus in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, near St. Petersburg...

undermine FSB Director Nikolay Patrushev's influence, as his team from the Karelian KGB Directorate of the late 1980s  to early 1990s suffered most, and he...

the Balkans, bitter Finnish resistance to the Soviet offensive in the Karelian Isthmus denied the Soviets occupation of Finland and led to a Soviet-Finnish...

Volost was dissolved in 2004. There have been several attempts by the Karelian Congress and the Veps Culture Society to restore the autonomy. Russia has...

March 1991, it became the Republic of Buryatia. Karelian ASSR was formed on 23 July 1923 when the Karelian Labor Commune was integrated into the RSFSR's...

Union attempted to negotiate with Finland to cede Finnish territory on the Karelian Isthmus and the islands of the Gulf of Finland, and to establish a Soviet...

Civil Corps, Social-National Assembly, Social-National Party of Ukraine, Karelian National Battalion Bee – Co-operative Party Earth with sunflower petals...

Crusade was ongoing and the Finnish tribes such as the Tavastians and Karelians were in frequent conflicts with Novgorod and with each other. Also, during...

Union Republic in March 1940 and then incorporated into Russia as the Karelian ASSR in 1956. Between July 1956 and September 1991, there were 15 union...

following Germany's defeat in World War I. Republican victories in subsequent elections resulted in the country becoming a republic. During the Finnish Civil...

temporarily brought to an end by a peace treaty in 1323, dividing the Karelian peninsula and the northern areas between the two countries. Ivars, Ann-Marie;...

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been founded by Birger Jarl to protect Sweden from sea invasions made by Karelians after the pillage of Sigtuna on Lake Mälaren in the summer of 1187. Stockholm's...

five elections to date, with exact ties in Akulliq in the 2008 Nunavut general election and in Rankin Inlet South in the 2013 Nunavut general election. In...

Scientific Center [ru; tr] Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center [ru] Karelian Research Centre of RAS Kola Scientific Center [ru; sr] Nizhny Novgorod...

Head of state for nearly 26 years, he dominated Finnish politics for 31 years overall. Holding a large amount of power, he won his later elections with...

Karelia and Savonia during the Swedish rule. There was also some Estonian, Karelian, Russian and German population in the area. At the end of the 17th century...

Various Sami languages are spoken in northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. Karelian is spoken a little in Finland, the Kven language in Norway and Meänkieli...

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