Karjalan Sanomat


Karjalan Sanomat is a weekly Finnish language newspaper from the Republic of Karelia, published in Petrozavodsk. The newspaper was founded in 1920 as 'Karjalan kommuuni'.
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.
Previous names:
  • 1920-1923: Karjalan kommuuni
  • 1923-1937: Punainen Karjala
  • 1938-1940: Советской Карелия
  • 1940-1955: Totuus
  • 1955-1957: Leninilainen totuus
  • 1957-1991: Neuvosto-Karjala
  • 1991-: Karjalan sanomat
From 1938 to 1940 the newspaper was printed in Karelian using Cyrillic, rather than Finnish.
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