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BULLETIN ¹ 8-9 OF KARELIA REGIONAL PUBLIC ORGANISATION

ARTICLES OF INTERNS OF GROUP 8


Keep it up!


Destiny… So often it makes unexpected turns…
So, by chance, I found myself at the training course in Youth Information Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples “NEVOND”.
As life shows, nothing happens by chance…
I felt like I plunged into another world… where people fight desperately, selflessly for the rights of people called indigenous.
Few usual people realize that indigenous peoples of our republic are almost at the edge of extinction, although Karelia is their historical motherland.
Officially Karels are not enlisted to the group of small indigenous peoples, as their population is over 50 thousand. They are not small-numbered for a while… for a while… They are a titling nation that gave the name to our republic… But Veps are already officially considered as such. And the Red Book soon will have to include not only plants and animals, but endangered peoples as well.
It’s so nice that on the background of this crazy rhythm of life public organizations and centers are established which try to save and keep the culture and traditions of these peoples.
Since 1991 in republic there exists the State Committee of the Karelia Republic on National Policy. By the way, nowadays it is already the Ministry of the Karelia Republic on the Issues of National Policy and Connections with Religious Unions. The reader, having reached these words, will grin, “Everybody knows it…” But few could explain what this ministry is busy with. And few people know, that there is a charming woman (Karel) Valentina Karakina working at creation of the Russian-Karel dictionary. “And what’s there so wonderful about it?” you will think. Do stop for a moment and think that we have stepped into the new millennium, while at the historical motherland of Karels there have been no dictionary. Never!!!
Disappearing is the language… traditions… culture… people…
It sounds so terrible!!! And it can become a reality!
But I want to believe that until there are people with bleeding hearts for this problem it won’t happen!
I’m much grateful to my destiny that it led me to the director of the Center Evgenia Shustova. This energetic person created the project in 2003 and realized it…
In the frameworks of this project she tried to give us so much information for thinking in long winter evenings, that our interns will stay impressed by communication with her for a long time.
In whole, Evgenia is a fighter… a real fighter for her business…
Keep it up!!!
Marina Tishchenko


The Karel Language – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow


It’s an opinion of an average man not overburden with big knowledge in the field of linguistics and history or with any other knowledge. Everything written in this article is not a scientific research, and you shouldn’t take the author serious, who himself confused in his own thoughts but who is not indifferent to the future of the Karel language.
Yesterday. The word “yesterday” here means “in the past”. The number of Karels was neither big nor small, just enough to keep their culture. There were attempts to create an alphabet, they tried to write Cyrillic to Novgorod people, Latin to Swedes, but obviously the Slavs and the Scandinavians didn’t understand what the Karels wanted. And how could they understand? One village was writing it one way, the second village – another, the third had nothing to write with but an axe. But let’s put aside this hoary antiquity, for these letters or for some other reasons, but the number of the Karels left is very little, not enough.
Today. Neither much nor little time has passed, just enough for the following generations of Karels to forget their language, not everybody, but many, the majority. And the time has come to revive the Karel language. The laws have been passed, the books are being published, dictionaries are being composed. The governments of different countries help, nobody is staying aside, everybody is ready to support small people. The Karels who forgot everything are learning the Karel language again, maybe they will succeed in it.
Tomorrow. As I know the Karel character not by hearsay, I want to paraphrase the words of E. Rovio and say, “The Karels will fight for their culture and language with persistence peculiar to our tribe”. Maybe yes or maybe no. And if the Karels recallect their culture, learn their language, start thinking, writing, reading and speaking only the Karel language, who will understand what these Karels want.

Alexey Petrov


The War Hasn’t Finished Yet


The war hasn’t finished until the last poplar is sawed down. I can’t say for sure, but people say that the poplars in Petrozavodsk appeared after the Great Patriotic War and were brought from Germany as salvage. A beautiful legend, in Karelia there many legends, but maybe it is true. To know in details where from, when, who and what for the poplars were brought and planted everywhere in the city I don’t have the time and desire. The fact is that most of the poplars are marked with red as breaking, i.e. dangerous for the lives of people. In Petrozavodsk there was a precedent when a young girl died because of the old tree crashed on her. After that the number of red marks increased in the city. We have to admit that the poplars are cut down, but it is done mostly on the central streets. And in the yards where children are playing dangerous trees are left. We will hope, as usual, that maybe nothing will happen and they will find money before we suffer next losses.

Alexey Petrov


Oh, Sooyarvi Roads!


For many years nothing has changed on the roads of Sooyarvi Region. From time to time you can hear: a car turned over, a bus… Sometimes we meet Finnish tourists, they wonder: on their maps the roads in our region are asphalted long ago! Yes, there was such an idea in Soviet times, but perestroika prevented it, unfortunately. But I can’t understand what is preventing it now: every day the number of drivers is growing, the taxes are paid regularly, there are so many charity foundations, but the problems are the same, the classical ones – “fools and roads”. The road problem seems not so big if looked on the global scale. But I fully agree with the Constitution of the Karelia Republic (by the way, has anybody seen it for sale?), that “a man, his life and health, … security … are the highest value”. Yes, that’s right, we want to live.
An example from my personal life. Summer 2005. All our family is going to my native village Naistenyarvi to visit grandmother. On one of the sandy turns we are skidded and the car becomes uncontrolled. Fortunately, my husband managed to reduce the speed, but the car is inevitable carried to the forest, the “meetings” with trees can’t be avoided. Everything is happening so quickly, that I didn’t have time to scare. The car goes between two threes and is ready to crash in the third one standing further in the middle. Instinctively I close my eyes… A push, we stopped. Something was strewing on us through the open windows. I open my eyes – the car knocked down the old tree and we were showered with rotten wood. Six-year-old son breathed out, “Wow, great!” We were lucky. Only a car was a little bit battered. I’m afraid to think that this story could have different ending…
Maybe in all Karelia the state of the roads make is desire the better? Frankly speaking, I was thinking like this… until I came to see my friend to the nearby region. Imagine the picture: the car is jumping, waving from side to side, the driver seized the steering-wheel and perfected himself in driving, and suddenly… a smooth, with ideal from my point of view asphalt, on which our “Zhuchka” is running at the speed of 110 km/h (more is just impossible for it) so evenly. Outside the windows well-groomed splayed fields and hayricks are passing. In short, eyes enjoy idyllic pictures of nature ennobled by man. Where am I? Abroad? No, this is Sortavalsky Region! The same country, the same republic. This is the food for thinking: on whom does the state of the roads in the region depend?
If the business is bad in the region, maybe in Sooyarvy itself the situation is better? “Yeah, better”, the drivers grin jumping on the next pit or a patch on asphalt. In winter the central road is cleaned more often, the secondary – from time to time. Our house, for example, is standing far from the main road, so in winter after heavy snowfalls the drivers of our yard go outside and do rather useful morning exercise: help the neighbors to push the cars from snowdrift to the road. We feel especially sorry to the people living on Kaimanova street in spring: the roads are hardly cleaned, people and vehicles are stuck in tracks. But the local boys are happy to help the drivers to push the car. What is more, I strongly advise you not to walk in rain along Lenina Square to the city center – in the middle of your way for many years already a huge puddle obstructs the road in rainy weather. And to go round it a pedestrian has to go in the middle of the traffic area, which is not liked by drivers very much. But we are not elves, we can’t fly over the puddles.
Optimistic people advise to see positive in everything. I found it too: maybe due to the complicated character of our roads every year local people can enjoy an interesting event – rally.

Liya Savitskaya


Registration in the House, Which doesn’t Exist


The situation described in the article is not a single insistence. However, I will speak about it in the first person, because I’m not acquainted with other people who found themselves in the same situation and don’t know their opinion about it, though I’m sure it is negative.
From my own experience I want to show how easily you can lose your rights of possession of your apartment. According to official documents, I’m together with my father registered in house 19 in Zaitseva street in Petrozavodsk. Nothing special, but if somebody tries to find this house in our city, they will not succeed, because this house just doesn’t exist as well as number 17, that logically should be next to it. Now on the place of these houses there is nothing except even land. Come to visit us.
Certainly, there was a preamble to the situation. Long ago, in 1993, there was decided to make a renewal in both the two-floor stone houses with the aim to construct the third floor. The inhabitants were “temporarily” moved in so called “resettlement fund”, which, in my case, was a wooden house in Borovaya street on the edge of the city.
The roofs of the houses in Zaitseva street were removed, but the enthusiasm of building ended at this stage. Maybe because the money finished, maybe for some other reasons – it’s difficult to say. The walls cannot stay in good condition long without the roof. Rain, other weather conditions destroy them, and afterwards they were removed at all, because mending became impossible.
In such situation it would be logical to pull the houses down, but according to housing legislation of the former RSFSR and the Russian Federation provision with accommodation connected with pulling down of a house must precede to the destroying of the house. Moving the people to the “resettlement fund” cannot be considered as giving accommodation because people don’t have any rights on these apartments: no documents – no possibility to use a temporary dwelling as your property. You can’t sell or privatize it. Probably, you can live there for some time and submit the inconvenience. But to live in a flat, which doesn’t belong to you and on which you have no documents for 13 years without any hope on change is a very unpleasant situation that nobody wishes to stay in.
By law, the Administration of Petrozavodsk must provide with accommodation the residents of both the houses, who defend their right of possession of apartments in courts. But actually this obligation of the Administration in difficult to implement, and there are about a hundred of unrealized decisions, and the court examinations don’t have any concrete results. So far the residents are not provided with the right on possession of dwelling, not to mention the compensation for the inconvenience of the situation.
Darya Tretyakova


A Psychologist for Yourself


In our crazy time you can often hear, “I’m so stressed!” or “I’ve been depressed for two weeks…” Work, furious pace of life, family problems made so many young people dependent on pills, super modern, alleged “without side effect”, and the older people forgot how to sleep without soporific or valerian. And only for the last years over television, press doctors and psychologists started talking that we shouldn’t look for a panacea of all nervous diseases, but, first of all, “change” our mind, lifestyle, break our stereotypes. And it is much more difficult than to take a pill.
How not to worry
Be in time to tell yourself, “Nobody died? All the rest is remediable!” A TV-set or a washing machine has broken? I agree, it’s unpleasant. But somebody after tsunami lost a TV, dwelling and … life. Don’t panic after all the news on TV. Catastrophes, typhoons, floods, epidemics have always been and will be, and you don’t have enough nervous cells for them all. It’s good that our mother Earth is still bearing us and don’t remove us from her surface. Cynical? Maybe. By I don’t see any sense in groaning and moaning in front of TV. If you can help to a concrete person – do it, but your worries will not make any ease to anybody. You were said rude things? Feel sorry for that man: probably he had a bad day from the morning, somebody of his close people is ill… I don’t call to keep silence in reply to rudeness – answer calmly, with a smile, joke, irony. As a rule, after that one stops being rude. Don’t believe? Try! What for? I will answer with the words of a psychologist Williams James, “God can forgive us our sins, but the nervous system – never”.
Enjoy every day!
Look at the world as children do. Be astonished and happy with every small thing. Your son got a good mark – “Good boy, I’m proud of you”, an excellent mark – “You are genius!” Autumn. Dark inside the soul and outside the house. Weather forecast foretells only “dull” for many days ahead. I read somewhere that to be offended by the weather is the most stupid thing in the world. Go for a walk to the park (forest, yard), look down: in the fallen leaves you will see GREEN grass shining through – the last present of summer! Or bring your child to the colorful heap of bright autumn leaves and ask, “What would you like to do now?” You will hear, “Can I wallow?” You can! Wallow and toss them up strewing yourself with golden autumn “rain”. Well, and for the parents a more sedate variant – walk on this precious carpet, let it rustle under your feet. I doubt somebody will think about problems at work at this moment!
We will be happy even at a hut!
Envy nowadays seriously spoils our life, and first of all our nerves. It was good to live in the USSR: come round to anybody and you see the same cupboards, chandeliers, dishes and even wallpapers… It makes you remember a famous film “Irony of the Destiny”! But now there is number of reasons for envy: you have an old Russian car while your neighbor possesses “Toyota”, you can afford to buy only a cheep refrigerator, and at your friends’ you saw a huge construction up to the ceiling, and this list can be continued endlessly… Once in spring we with all the family went to the cemetery to clean the tombs of relatives. I was looking at these last shelters of human bodies and amazing: every grave was allotted a small rectangle of land. That’s all! No apartments, no cars or fashionable mobile phones. THERE we will need nothing of these! And we kill ourselves all the lifespan buying one thing after another, improved models… but we can’t take anything of these with ourselves. In a book of Vigdorova one of the characters said a phrase, which I remember from my childhood: “Don’t put your soul in things”. You don’t have a villa on the seashore, but your family spent the weekend in the forest, on the lakeside, with overnight stay, and your child will remember all his life how he caught his first fish.
“A Smile Will Make the World Brighter…” (from children’s song)
Don’t hurry to leave your house in the morning. Come up to the mirror. And now… smile! “What a smile are you talking about, today I’ve got an exam, inspection, conference…” Smile anyway and try to fix this expression on your face for some seconds, minutes. Everybody knows that a man smiles when he is in a good mood, but few suppose the return connection. You will say: you can’t do it everyday! Don’t reproach yourself. Nobody tells you it must be done everyday. I just ask, “Try. Try to smile tomorrow, today, now”.
Liya Savitskaya



ARTICLES OF INTERNS OF GROUP 9

Remember Your Roots


Before I came for study in Youth Information Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples “NEVOND”, I heard that some people are engaged with rights of indigenous peoples, but I never thought seriously about it. The peoples themselves seemed didn’t need it. I even felt a little irritated: why do people try to stick their nose in others’ business, why do they make decisions for indigenous peoples? Or they have nothing else to do? Do indigenous peoples themselves hear them? And what do indigenous peoples need it for? They are somewhat dormant, and somebody is pushing them without reason!
But when I immersed in the situation here, I understood that indigenous peoples are not pushed, but they themselves are fighting to be heard and the rest of their identity wouldn’t be pressed and destroyed, and the younger generation would grow remembering their roots. And such movement can be observed all round the world.
During my training I have studied a lot of international documents. But most of all I was impressed by the Indigenous and Tribal People Convention adopted by the International Labour Organization on 27 June 1989.
At the beginning of this document it is stated why this convention is taken: “Recognising the aspirations of these peoples to exercise control over their own institutions, ways of life and economic development and to maintain and develop their identities, languages and religions, within the framework of the States in which they live, and noting that in many parts of the world these peoples are unable to enjoy their fundamental human rights to the same degree as the rest of the population of the States within which they live, and that their laws, values, customs and perspectives have often been eroded.”
I was struck with the thought that suppression of the importance of the people in the mind of its individual representatives can lead to disappearance of all the people, growth of suicides in the most depressed places of living where people make efforts to hold the rest of their identity.
This convention reflects the main desires of indigenous peoples. Their wish to possess and manage the lands where they have been living and developing for centuries, to keep the language, culture and spiritual values of their people, transfer them through traditional methods of education and activities, but at the same time to be the powerful member of the modern society, saving their uniqueness.
Why do the people need land? Because there is a special connection of cultural and spiritual values of indigenous peoples with their lands and territories. This connection is recognized by the Convention, it states, “The rights of ownership and possession of the peoples concerned over the lands which they traditionally occupy shall be recognised. In addition, measures shall be taken in appropriate cases to safeguard the right of the peoples concerned to use lands not exclusively occupied by them, but to which they have traditionally had access for their subsistence and traditional activities…Governments shall take steps as necessary to identify the lands which the peoples concerned traditionally occupy, and to guarantee effective protection of their rights of ownership and possession.” According to this document, indigenous peoples can work out special procedures of transfer of the rights on land between persons belonging to these peoples, each time the states should consult while considering the rights on land.
And the main thing is that document obliges the states to take into account all the interests of indigenous peoples and support them in exercising their rights.
If the Convention were applied in full measure, it would allow indigenous peoples to feel protected in the world chaos, give them full calmness and the sense of self-importance.
People understanding these things should carry to the titling nations the information why indigenous peoples should be cared about. The diversity of them contains the charm and zest, which allows them to be distinguished in the common chorus of Earth inhabitants. So that it would be interesting to arrive in any part of the world and enjoy the variety of customs of local population.
In Karelia many people of different nationalities live, but indigenous peoples should be loved and cherished – they are the wealth of the Karelia Republic.

Natalya Slyasskaya


The Supreme Court of the Karelia Republic


Before visiting the training courses on the rights of indigenous peoples, I had no idea of laws, human rights, not to mention the mechanisms of their protection. During the internship I learned a lot of new international and Russian documents regulating the implementation and ways of protection of lawful rights, aiming to normal existence of people in society. I’d like to dwell on such a mechanism of protection of rights as the Supreme Court of the Karelia Republic, which I visited in the course of study.
The Supreme Court of the Karelia Republic is the highest court institution proceeding criminal and civil cases. Only in this court criminal cases can be heard with participation of the jury on application of defendants. The jury is elected from the population of our republic, i.e. it can be almost every capable citizen of a certain age. In the court we were told how the election of the jury is made and what requirements they should meet. In our republic there are proceeded 6-8 such cases annually. Such a possibility, along with the Justice of the Peace, appeared recently in connection with the reform held in the country.
I also want to remark good conditions of work of the judges and keeping defendants. The Supreme Court of the Karelia Republic is located in a high building in the center of Petrozavodsk and takes several floors. Service rooms, sitting halls, security of the building are provided with the latest technologies and meet all the standards for such institutions. On excursion we had the chance to make sure of that when we saw beautiful and comfortable rooms of judges, sitting hall where the antique furniture is combined with the modern means of communication.
In result of these studies I have understood that protection of your lawful rights should be done, first of all, via the court, which I advise to everybody.

Stanislav Slyassky


Helpline


In the century of high technology and permanent business people often feel lack of communication and, as a result, difficulties in their relations with others. Sometimes their best companion becomes a computer, and an interlocutor – a virtual friend. Facing problems in real life a person doesn’t know how to solve them.
In summer 1995 in Petrozavodsk “Sampo” Center of Social Aid to a Family and Children was opened. Today on the basis of the Center there works the service of psychological aid “Helpline”, where qualified specialists work. During 2006 255 people called the helpline. Among them 194 women and 61 men, that is percentage 76% and 24%. Thus, male ask for help 4 times less than female. It doesn’t mean men have no problems and the need to solve them, but this is more obviously connected with the stereotype that a man have to overcome the difficulties himself.
According to the statistics of the Center, the helpline is more often applied with the problems of relations and communication. On the second place there are problems of upbringing children. The third place have family relations. At that women are most worried with the questions of relationships and communication. Then – educating children. On the third place there are family relations. At the same time on the first place for men there are problems connected with sexual relations and communication. On the second place – lack of communication, on the third – social problems.
Thus we can conclude that with the problems of relations and communication men and women apply equally often. Women are more worried by the problems of children and family. Men don’t consult on the problems of upbringing children. For them the first place is taken by sexual relations problems (which for women take only penultimate place) and the problems of communication and its lack.
Quite often the clients address with the conflicts between family members, marital infidelity or suspicion of it, divorce.
Parents are mostly anxious about the problems of study and work of the children, forming and development of their personalities, conflicts with children.
More and more appeals relate to assault in families. Usually aggression is expressed by husbands, common-law husbands, adult sons.
Every day we have to solve a lot of problems. Not always we understand close people, and sometimes feel they don’t understand us. Maybe we just should pay more attention to those who are near us, spend an evening having a cup of tea with a dear man…

Olga Barysheva


Travel to Yashezersky Monastery


The Annunciation Iono-Yashezersky Monasrery is located in Veps Volost between two lakes – the Yashezero and the Monastyrnoye (Sennoye) approximately 17 km away from Shoksha village. The founder of the monastery was Reverend Iona, one of the last disciples and companions of Alexander Svirsky.
The way of the trip was chosen not traditionally from Shoksha village to the Yashezero along the road, but past the Rzhanoye Lake along the Rzhanoy brook and further to the Yashezersky Monastery.
The order of the travel was determined by the fact that by grandfather by mother’s line, Pavel Lutokhin, after the war kept farm on the Rzhanoye Lake.
After moving to Petrozavodsk with the family he built a fishing hut where he often took me when I was a child. I was eager to visit that place again.
So we gathered a group of tourists of three and went by bus Petrozavodsk-Sheltozero. 6 km before Shoksha we ask the driver to stop and go deep into the autumn forest.
On our way near the Anashkino Lake we find two deserted quarries of gabbrodiabase. Heaped up blocks and overburden rock says about careless use of natural resources. We take some pictures of the Anashkino Lake. The photographer was Valery from Volgograd. And we go on further.
We approach the Rzhanoye Lake. A hare jumps from under our feet and hops along a hardly seen path, which I remember from my childhood, but the path breaks by unknown vacant ground: some years ago there was a felling. The hope to find what is left of that old fishing hut is slowly disappearing. But I show persistence and we come across a destroyed overgrown with the grass framework, see the remains of rotted mattress, the metal framework of the stove. Before the house was standing on a pretty meadow surrounded by the forest, now it is a cut glade. In the distance through the bushes the Rzhanoye shines. We come to the lake, and here it is, that feeling! Fishing, bite, roach, squelch of waterlogged bank under your feet, my granddad on a raft, fish-soup…
We make a halt.
Further our way goes along the Rzhanoy brook. The location of the Rzhanoy on the Veps highland determines the character of discharge of the brook. Marshlands with slowly running water are followed by rapid sinks. We turn away from the brook and by the old timber-carrying road reach the Monastyrny Lake. On the other side there is Yashezersky Monastery standing monumentally and stately. Collectively we decide to organize an overnight stay in that place. Visiting and acquaintance with the monastery is left for the following day.


The selected place for our stop was covered with golden aspen leaves, which served a bedding for our tent.
In the morning an interesting event happened: our friend lost a pagan amulet with runes. Discussing the time of its loss we found out that it happened yesterday. After long searching we found the amulet, the bond of the leather lace turned out to get untied. If we are really in the sacred place?! Iona didn’t let us to sleep here with pagan trinkets!
At last we are within the monastery walls! The Temple of Transfiguration, a candle in the temple, saved stonework of crimson quartzite, interesting architectural shape of arches of the gates of the monastery. By the way, it is the closest monastery to the administrative center of the Karelia Republic – Petrozavodsk city.
But first of all we were amazed that in quite a big distance from the closest settlement, in a deep forest, there is such a majestic building placed.
The aims of the travel were achieved and we went to Shoksha by the road made by pilgrims.
On our way back we took a lost puppy, that afterwards was taken from us by some military man, passed a stone-working plant in Lesnoye. While approaching Shoksha, more and more often cut glades appeared, some kilometers to the village a local man stopped and gave us a lift in his tractor’s trailer.
Of all the places of the southern Karelia where I’ve ever been the lost monastery on Lake Yashezero left the strongest remembrances.

Roman Vershinin









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