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''Suomen Kuvalehti'' ( or 'the Finnish picture magazine') is a weekly
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family and
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published in
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,
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.


History and profile

''Suomen Kuvalehti'' was founded in 1873 and published until the year 1880. The magazine started publishing again in 1917, and continues to this day. It was merged with ''Kansan Kuvalehti'' in 1934. The editor in 1935 was L.M. Viherjuuri. Ilmari Turja edited the magazine from 1936 to 1951. The headquarters of ''Suomen Kuvalehti'' is in Helsinki.
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publishes the magazine, every Friday. One of its former editor is
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. ''Suomen Kuvalehti'' originally supported
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politics in the country. In the aftermath of the
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, from which Finland emerged as an independent, democratic republic, the magazine valorized the victorious Whites as patriots and heroes. It also published '' Vapautemme hinta'', a book detailing Finnish losses during the
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and like the vast majority of the Finnish press strongly favored the Finnish government against the Soviet invasion of Finland. During the Cold War period it was one of the Finnish publications which were accused by the
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of being the instrument of US propaganda, and the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki frequently protested the editors of the magazine. In more modern times, the magazine has had a
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and Finnish liberal stance without direct political affiliation. The weekly aims to write in-depth articles about current topics and to provide opinion-shaping editorials. The magazine focuses on news about national and international politics and culture. It is one of the
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outlets in the country.
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excerpts of Finnish novelist
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about his visit to
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between 1992 and 1995 were published in ''Suomen Kuvalehti''. The
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'' Blondie'' regularly appears in the magazine. In the ''Jyviä ja akanoita'' ("wheat and chaff") column, various humorous misprints and grammatical goofs from other magazines and newspapers are printed. In March 1997 two journalists from ''Suomen Kuvalehti'' were arrested in
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,
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, while reporting about the Kurdish movement in the region.


Circulation

The circulation of ''Suomen Kuvalehti'' was 102,000 copies in 2007 and 96,000 copies in 2009. In 2010 its circulation fell to 88,667 copies. The 2011 circulation of the weekly grew to 91,277 copies. But, it fell to 86,786 copies in 2012 and to 79,275 copies in 2013.


Editor

*Matti Kivekäs 1916–18 *L. M. Viherjuuri 1918–36 *Ilmari Turja 1936–51 *Primary Rislakk 1952–60 *Leo Tujunen 1961–74 *Jouko Tyyri 1974 *Mikko Pohtola 1974–86 *Pekka Hyvärinen 1987–92 *Martti Backman 1993–96 *Tapani Ruokanen 1996–2014 *Ville Pernaa 2014–


See also

*
List of magazines in Finland The first magazine in Finland, a Swedish-language women's magazine named ''Om Konsten at rätt behaga'', was published in 1782. The number of the Finnish magazines was about 1,200 in the 1980s. It increased to 4,275 in 1985. In the 1990s, the circu ...


References


External links


Official site
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