Karjalan Sanomat Explained
| Karjalan Sanomat |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Owners: | OmaMedia |
| Publisher: | Periodika |
| Chiefeditor: | Mikko Nesvitski |
| Language: | Finnish |
| Foundation: | 1920 |
| Headquarters: | Petrozavodsk, |
| Circulation: | 1,230 |
| Circulation Date: | 1920 |
Karjalan Sanomat (literally: Karelia's Messages) is a weekly Finnish language newspaper from the Republic of Karelia, published in Petrozavodsk. The newspaper was founded in 1920 as 'Karjalan kommuuni'.[1]
The newspaper is owned by OmaMedia, a conglomerate in the Karelian-language newspaper- industry. Its publisher is Periodika, a Russian state-owned publisher associated with OmaMedia.[2]
Previous names:
- 1920-1923: Karjalan kommuuni (Karelian Commune)
- 1923-1937: Punainen Karjala (Red Karelia)
- 1938-1940: Советской Карелия (Soviet Karelia)[3]
- 1940-1955: Totuus (Truth)
- 1955-1957: Leninilainen totuus (Lenin's Truth)
- 1957-1991: Neuvosto-Karjala (Soviet Karelia)
- 1991-: Karjalan sanomat (Karelian News)
From 1938 to 1940 the newspaper was printed in Karelian using Cyrillic, rather than Finnish.
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Historia│Karjalan Sanomat . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150630160346/http://www.karjalansanomat.ru/sivu/historia . 2015-06-30.
- Web site: Karjalan Sanomat . 2023-10-21 . Omamedia - мультиязычный портал Карелии . en.
- Book: Jukka Pietiläinen. From Participating to Informing. The Transition of Journalism in Russian Regional Press. 2005. Nordicom. 18 December 2014. Diffusion of the News Paradigm 1850-2000.
