Agnessa Haikara

[4] She wrote a nonfiction book "Неизвестная северная история О трагических судьбах кольских финнов и норвежцев, подвергшихся политическим репрессиям" (Unknown Northern History.

About the tragic fates of the Kola Finns and Norwegians who were subjected to political repression) about the persecution of 210 Murmansk Finns and Kola Norwegians (printed in Finnish as Kuka koputtaa ovellesi?, Who is Knocking at Your Door?, translated by Pekka Iivari, in 2023[5]).

Her advocate insisted that the experts on whose opinion accusation was based were lacking competence, and the second expertise performed in 2022 refuted their findings.

[6] According to Russian political scientist Aleksandr Kynev [ru], Haikara's case follows the trend in Putin's Russia to suppress information about persecutions under Stalin.

[8][4] As of 2024[update] she lives in Rovaniemi and is doing her Ph.D. as a junior researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland.