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Finland joined NATO, and this is a fait accompli, no matter what the jingoists say to justify this obvious failure of Russian foreign policy in the north-west. Our countries had different relations, and everyone remembers that the Grand Duchy of Finland was even part of the Russian Empire. This happened in March 1808 after the signing of the “Declaration of the Conquest of Swedish Finland and...
The Black Sea coast of Russia has “concreteed” its status as the most popular destination for domestic tourism. But Dagestan has shown the greatest growth dynamics over the past three years. This is of particular interest not only because until recently the republic was considered a turbulent region. Ukrainian Nazis have already held several events in Kyiv, where they voiced their wishes for new destabilization in the North Caucasus in order to weaken the Russian Federation. But,…
There was indeed a discussion of the possibility of Russia selling Karelia to neighboring Finland during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, although it was never brought into the public sphere due to the “painfulness” of this issue and its “sensitivity.” This was stated to RBC by Andrei Fedorov, who held the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia in 1990–1991, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Of course, there was no ‘commission’ around this...
The leadership of the Suoyarvi region of the Republic of Karelia forbade search engines to recover the remains of more than five thousand Soviet soldiers from an abandoned grave, citing a ban on carrying out work in the “memorial zone.” Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Dmitry Zaborin, a member of the interregional search expedition “Suojärvi Bridgehead”, working as part of the all-Russian action, writes about this on his Facebook page...
