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The musicians' latest season draws to a close when Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth stars in a memorable concert to celebrate his 70th birthday. The show opens with the Karelia Suite by Sibelius. Written very early in his career as a commission it is based on folk tunes from South East Finland, and ...
Yuri Dmitriev is the one who discovered the Stalin-era mass graves in Sandormokh, Karelia, and he has written many books about the atrocities of the period. On 13th December 2016, he was arrested and charged for production of child pornography. Later, the charges were extended to also sexual abuse ...

Searching for Memory of the Gulags in Putin's Russia. By Masha Gessen. Photography by Misha Friedman. 3:29 P.M.. Statue of the early Soviet politician Sergei Kirov, White Sea Canal headquarters, Medvezhegorsk, Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Photo Booth ...
The evidence for the profound upswing in oxygen comes from crystalized salt rocks extracted from a 1.2-mile-deep hole in the region of Karelia in northwest Russia. These salt crystals were left behind when ancient seawater evaporated, and they give geologists unprecedented clues to the composition of ...
A spokeswoman for the Karelia prosecutor's office, Tatyana Kordyukova, told AFP she could not comment on the closed-door hearing. Dmitriyev's supporters say the case against him is an attempt by authorities to muzzle the outspoken historian whose research drew international attention to one of the ...
Dmitriyev, who heads the Karelia chapter of the prominent Russian human rights group Memorial, has worked for decades to expose crimes committed in the northwestern region of Karelia by the Soviet state under dictator Josef Stalin. He was released from pretrial custody in late January on condition that ...

Former governor gets 8 years in jail. With such a jurisdiction our republic is doomed, says the man who previously headed Karelia. By ... Andrey Nelidov was appointed Head of the Republic of Karelia in 2010. Five years later, he was detained by police on suspicion of large-scale bribes. Nelidov was then ...
The former Head of Karelia, ex-Director of the Kizhi sanctuary museum, Andrey Nelidov, was found guilty of Bribe-Taking on an especially large scale (part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code) and handed down 8 years in a strict-regime colony. In addition, the Petrozavodsk City Court fined him 27.5 million ...
Dmitriyev, who heads the Karelia chapter of the human rights group Memorial, was released from pretrial custody in late January on condition that he wouldn't leave Petrozavodsk without permission. The court also ordered him to undergo a psychiatric examination and called for a new expert assessment of ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Police in Salt Lake City are asking for help locating a Utah resident in order to return the personal belongings of a soviet soldier killed during World War II. According to a post from the Salt Lake City Police Department, a search group located the fallen soldier's remains in Karelia, Russia ...

MOSCOW, February 19 (RAPSI) – The Pryazhinsky District Court in Russia's Republic of Karelia has scheduled preliminary hearing of a case over children's death in the local lake Syamozero for February 21, according to the court's website. Defendants in the case are former head of Karelia's ...
Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah stayed on course for victory in the Baja Russia Northern Forest Rally, the opening round of the 2018 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, after comfortably winning the 274km second stage in Karelia yesterday. The ace Qatari driver is chasing his fifth FIA World Cup crown, ...
KARELIA RUSSIA: Overdrive Racing will run three Toyota Hiluxes at the Baja Russia Northern Forest Rally, the opening round of the 2018 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, and each of the three drivers have very different objectives at the only snow and ice round of the series. The event takes place ...
The residents of a corner of Karelia known for its paper mill and its prison are fed up with poor quality housing, inefficient public transport and an unresponsive state — and are trying to do something about it. From openDemocracy. by Anna Yarovaya 12 February 2018. In Segezha, most people are either “paper people” ...
Did you manage to reach them in Karelia? — Initially, 2017 was declared the Year of Specially Protected Natural Areas (SPNA) in connection with the 100th anniversary of the reserve system and the Barguzinsky Reserve. For some reason, as early as 2015, the year was also declared the Year of Ecology.
Green power was a key issue of discussion during last week's Karelian government visit to the Chinese province of Fujian. A 60 MW wind park is planned built offshore in the White Sea. It has an estimated price of 9 billion rubles, and is considered one of the most perspective investment projects in Karelia, ...
In Karelia, the co-chairman of the Public Monitoring Team called this document a “typical instruction for the passive contemplation of the simplest violations of the electoral procedure, which, in fact, never occur.” “In this regard, unfortunately there can be no question of genuine election monitoring,” explained ...


 

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