After the war, during the Soviet era, speaking Tver Karelian became a source of embarrassment - it was associated with rural ...

The preservation of the Karelian culture About how the evacuated Finnish Karels have acclimatized themselves to the indigenous people and how the Karelian culture has been preserved during the ...

where the Karelian dacha is located on land owned by the Prime company. It is controlled by Putin's friends Yuri Kovalchko and his son Boris. Locals usually refer to it as "Putin's dacha," as it ...