Tag: Young Karelia

Russian Officials Stretch the Law in Effort to Declare Young Karelia a ‘Foreign Agent’

June 20, 2015

Staunton, June 19 – Not having found any evidence that the Young Karelia (“Nuori Karjala”) movement has taken money from Finland as anonymous sources had claimed, justice ministry officials in Petrozavodsk nonetheless argue that it should be declared “a foreign agent” because it had received a grant from the UN and hosted visitors from abroad. […]