KARELIAN nationalists who call for the independence of their republic and raise “unnecessary and harmful questions about additional state languages” there are being “seriously underestimated” as a threat to Petrozavodsk and Moscow, according to Sergey Pirozhnikov, a deputy in the republic legislative assembly. The reason that this small group is so dangerous, he suggests, is that it is backed by the West. “The enemies of the Motherland today are going for broke,” and they see the Karelians as one of the groups that can that they can use to destabilize the situation inside Russia (stolica.onego.ru/news/249805.html). Much of the backing for Karelian separatism is coming from Finland, Pirozhnikov says, but they should be focusing on the problems of the Karelians in that country rather than on their co-ethnics in the Russian Federation. There are 15 times more Karels in Finland than there are in Karelia, but Helsinki is far less supportive than is Petrazavodsk (rk.karelia.ru/politics/sergej-pirozhnikov-zachem-nam-navyazyvaetsya-diskussiya-o-gosudarstvennyh-yazykah/). -------------------------- Separate from them.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:29:34 +0000
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