''Demokraatti'' is a

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organ published daily in

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History and profile

''Demokraatti'' was established in 1895. Its name in the beginning was ''

Työmies ''Työmies'' (The Worker) was a politically radical Finnish-language newspaper published primarily out of Hancock, Michigan, and Superior, Wisconsin. Launched as a weekly in July 1903, the paper later went to daily frequency and was issued und ...

'' (The Labourer). The paper is headquartered in Helsinki and is the organ of the

. The paper is published five times a week. In late 1997 another social democratic paper, '' Turun Päivälehti'', merged with ''Demokraatti'', and they began to publish the same material, although ''Turun Päivälehti'' preserved its name. The circulation of ''Demokraatti'' was 25,000 copies in 1997.

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