Last week, a committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation announced that it would begin to investigate what it referred to as “the destruction of Soviet prisoners of war and members of the Slavic civilian population in concentration camps set up in Karelia by the Finnish occupation”. The crime, according to the announcement, was genocide.
Genocide investigation launched in Russia causes confusion: Finland investigated the shortcomings of the camps in East Karelia immediately after the Continuation War
If requested, Russia would have received original material related to the camps from Finland.