Agnessa Haikara

Agnessa Haikara, also Agnessa Haykara (born September 1979 ) is a Russian lawyer and sociologist, public and political activist, and writer, best known for her documentary book about Murmansk Finns and Kola Norwegians repressed in the Soviet Union. She is a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Early life and education She was born in Murmansk to a family of Finnish origin.

In 2007, she graduated from Murmansk State Technical University. ).

The 2020 Russian print of the book was confiscated by the Federal Security Service right from the printing house According to Russian political scientist , Haikara's case follows the trend in Putin's Russia to suppress information about persecutions under Stalin.

Haikara traveled to Finland in August 2020 for research purposes before the FSS raided her publisher. She was informed of the raid in December of that same year. FSS denied the seizure of the books, and because Haikara had a contract to deliver 25 copies to the Ministry of Culture of the Murmansk region, the ministry accused her of the breach of contract.

she lives in Rovaniemi and is doing her Ph.D. as a junior researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland.