After the Russian Ministry of Justice included the Karelian journalist and art manager Natalya Sevets-Yermolina among the “foreign agents”, Karelia came out on top in terms of the density of “foreign agents” per capita among all Russian regions. So, now in Karelia there are 0.95 “foreign agents” per 100 thousand inhabitants. The closest pursuer is the city of Moscow (0.78 “foreign agents” per 100,000 inhabitants). At the same time, the average figure for Russia is 0.19.
Thus, now in the register of “foreign agents” there are five people from Karelia. Earlier, journalists Alla Konstantinova, Sergei Markelov and Georgy Chentemirov (chairman of the Union of Journalists of the republic) were declared “foreign agents” in Karelia. And in 2015, the public cultural and educational organization “Nuori Karjala” (“Young Karelia”) received this status.
Natalya Sevets-Yermolina assesses this situation philosophically: “Northern people are generally independent, they did not know the king. Karel sits by his boat on the shore of the lake, and his boat is the capital of the world, and no one can tell him. And I will also be in my boat, wherever I am”.
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