Tag: Valery Potashov

Separatism In Karelia More Serious Than Many Think, Petrozavodsk Deputy Says

December 17, 2014

Staunton, December 17 — 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 […]