A meeting of the Council of Representatives of Karelians, Veps and Finns of the Republic of Karelia under the Head of the Republic of Karelia was held in Petrozavodsk

The meeting of the Council was held by Sergey Kiselyov, Minister of National and Regional Policy of the Republic of Karelia.

One of the issues discussed at the Council meeting is initiative budgeting, which is an important resource for the development of local self-government.

The second question of the Council meeting concerned the holding of the Federal Olympiad of Schoolchildren in the Native Languages and Literature of the Peoples of Russia in the Republic of Karelia. Svetlana Korobeynikova, curator of the Olympiad in the Republic of Karelia, senior lecturer at the Department of Baltic-Finnish Philology at the Institute of Philology of PetrSU, noted in her speech that the Olympiad is included in the List of Olympiads of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, providing the winners and prize-winners of the Olympiad with additional points and advantages for admission to universities.