''Karjalan Sanomat'' (''Karelian News'') is a
Finnish language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedis ...
newspaper from the
Republic of Karelia, published in
Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk (russian: Петрозаводск, p=pʲɪtrəzɐˈvotsk; Karelian, Vepsian and fi, Petroskoi) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some . The population ...
.
Previous names:
* 1920-1923: Karjalan kommuuni (''Karelian Commune'')
* 1923-1937: Punainen Karjala (''Red Karelia'')
* 1938-1940: Советской Карелия (''Soviet Karelia'')
* 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
*
Eastern Bloc information dissemination
Eastern Bloc media and propaganda was controlled directly by each country's communist party, which controlled the state media, censorship and propaganda organs. State and party ownership of print, television and radio media served as an important ...
References
Newspapers established in 1920
Finnish-language newspapers
Newspapers published in Russia
Newspapers published in the Soviet Union
Eastern Bloc mass media
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