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Tänäpäi on kolmaspäivy, 30 ligakuu 2024

A meeting for members of Karelian language friends Society was held in the new local. Among the themes for discussion were following: help for the project of creation Karelian Wikepedia, plans to organize new Karelian party in this year, as well as further organization of Karelian language course and possible creation of a team to play Karelian skittles.

October 26th the society of Karelian language friends held a party there our visitors had a possibility to get know not only how does karelian language sound but also to learn about such things that tightly connected to Karelia as kalitkas - karelian pies and karelian balzam which everybody liked. Guests got a lot of facts from karelian history and present day, information about difficult fate of karelian people forced to leave their homes and Karelia under the Winter war, about their relation to modern Karelia, about construction of the Karelian language House in Vedlozero. The meeting was held in a room that was decorated with karelian flags - red and black flag of Finnish Karelia and national green-red-black flag of karelian people from East Karelia. Our party had a small concert where a soloist of the karelian band "Anna tulla" - charming Dasha was singing her songs on Karelian.