Newspaper Oma Mua adds Tver Karelian language
The only Karelian-language newspaper in the Russian Federation, Oma Mua, which had ceased publication in Karelia due to lack of funds, resumes publication. The good news is also that a Tver Karelian-language section will start appearing between the newspapers.
The first such issue was published on 6 November 2024. The sectoin will cover news from Tver Karelians as well as events concerning life in the region. There are also plans to publish fiction, articles on various projects and history. The editors in charge are poet Lyudmila Gromova and language activist Aleksandr Bulkin.
The Tver Karelians used to have their own newspaper, Karielan Sana, but it ceased publication in 2017. The number of Tver Karelians in 1926 was 140 567, and until 1939 they had their own national territory in the Republic of Karelia. In 1989, 23,169 Tver Karelians were counted, and in the last census in 2021, there were 2,764 Tver Karelians.
Reportedly, the local media outlet was hard on the news about the plan to seize Veps-, Karelian- and Finnish-language publications because it would undermine Russia’s national policy and also point to a lack of money.
