Russia: Finnish Property in Karelia

David McDuff of A Step At A Time reports on a Finnish lawyer who plans to sue Russia over the property in Karelia that used to belong to Finns before September 1944. Kari Silvennoinen, the lawyers, thinks that these Finns haven't lost their rights to this property.

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  • I have recently joined this group of property owners and their descendants who want their demand to be taken to the Russian Federation, and when it fails, as is expected, to the European Court of Human Rights.

    Even though I live half a world away from the shores of Lake Ladoga (‘Laatoka mere rantamilt’ in Karelian), I would not mind dipping my toes in the waters near where my paternal line had lived since mid-1600s.

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