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Is there national extremism in Karelia? (in Finnish and Russian)

Karelian language planning in the 1930's (in Finnish)

Photoalbum

New links

Friends of Viena Karelia (in Finnish)

Repola-society

Ludic society (in Finnish and Ludic)

Viena Karelian folklore villages

Culture pages from Karelia (in Finnish)

Tver Karelian cultural autonomy (mainly in Russian)

Karelian page at www.onego.ru

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Instructions

• Karelify your browser - Instructions on viewing the additional characters used in Karelian texts (in Finnish)

Articles and papers on Karelian language planning

• On Soviet language policy: The planning of the Karelian literary language in the 1930's - Licentiate's dissertation at the University of Joensuu (in Finnish)
• The Soviet national and linguistic policy in the Tver Karelia during the 1930's - Paper presented at the seminar of the Graduate school on Karelia, East Europe and Russia of the Joensuu University 18.4.1997 (in Finnish)
• The problem of the Karelian literary language in the 1930's and the 1990's - Paper presented at the international conference "Sociolinguistic problems in different regions of the world", Moscow, October 22-24, 1996
• Sovettisuomi? Language planning in the Soviet Karelia - Resume of my MA thesis (in Russian)
• You can take a look at the Samples of contemporary Russian dialects in Karelia, still under construction. Most of the materials are in Russian (KOI8-R only), but there is also a short introduction and description of the village of Kuzaranda in English. These pages will later be stored on another server, please do not make links to this URL. Your comments are most welcome.

Materials on Karelian language and culture

• Bibliography of literature published in Karelian
• Karjalane bibliotečkane - Samples from literature published in Karelian during the 1930's. The texts have been transcribed according to the contemporary ortography.
• Language legislation of the Karelian Republic - A language law that would guarantee Karelian an official status has been discussed in the republic for a couple of years. Until now the proposed law has been blocked by the Russian majority of the local parlament. Finnish has also been suggested as the second official language of the republic. (in Finnish and Russian)
• The third congress of the Karelians in Medvezhegorsk 4.4.98 (in Finnish and Russian)
• Karelian language board (in Finnish and Russian)
• Is there national extremism in Karelia? (in Finnish and Russian)
• Resume of Raija Pyöli's doctoral disseration "Venäläistyvä aunuksenkarjala" (in Russian)
• Photoalbum - Pictures from Karelia

My creations on the Karelian page of www.onego.ru

• Karjalan kieli Internetas (Karelian language on the Internet)
• Browseran (selaimen) karjalastamine (Instructions on viewing Latin 2)
• Karjalaine n'äppäimistö Windows 95 da 98 -sistiemoih (Karelian keyboard for Windows 95 and 98)
• "Kuunelgua vai armas rahvahaine!" - Poems, songs and tales of the Karelian people on Lenin and Stalin, heros of the revolution, new and happy life

Web links

• WWW-servers in the Republic of Karelia and the Tver region
• Karelian language and culture on the Internet
• Karelian media - Recently a number of newspapers in Karelia have started publishing their materials on the Internet. On this page we will be following what they write about the ethnic culture, linguistic and national problems (in Finnish and Russian).
• Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Internet resources on Russia's regional and minority languages