''Suomen Kuvalehti'' (lit. "Finland's picture magazine", or "The Finnish picture magazine") is a weekly

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family and

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published in

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History and profile

''Suomen Kuvalehti'' was founded in 1873 and published until the year 1880. The magazine started publishing again in 1917, and continues to this day. It was merged with ''Kansan Kuvalehti'' in 1934. The editor in 1935 was L.M. Viherjuuri.

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edited the magazine from 1936 to 1951. The headquarters of ''Suomen Kuvalehti'' is in Helsinki. The magazine is published by Otava every Friday. One of its former editor is

Ville Pernaa ''Ville'' or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin ''

villa rustica

'') and ...

. ''Suomen Kuvalehti'' originally supported

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politics in the country. In the aftermath of the

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, the magazine valorized the victorious Whites as patriots and heroes. It also published '' Vapautemme hinta'', a book detailing Finnish losses during the

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, and like the vast majority of the Finnish press strongly favored the Finnish government against the Soviet invasion. During the

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it was one of the Finnish publications which were accused by the

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of being the instrument of US propaganda, and the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki frequently protested the editors of the magazine. In more modern times, the magazine has had a

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and Finnish liberal stance without direct political affiliation. The weekly aims to write in-depth articles about current topics and to provide opinion-shaping editorials. The magazine focuses on news about national and international politics and culture. It is one of the

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outlets in the country.

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excerpts of

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novelist

Antti Tuuri Antti Elias Tuuri (born 1 October 1944, Kauhava, Southern Ostrobothnia) is a Finnish writer, known for his works dealing with Southern Ostrobothnia. The ''Äitini-suku''-series tells the stories of the Finns who emigrated to the United States. ...

about his visit to

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between 1992 and 1995 were published in ''Suomen Kuvalehti''. The

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

'' Blondie'' regularly appears in the magazine. In the ''Jyviä ja akanoita'' ("wheat and chaff") column, various humorous misprints and grammatical goofs from other magazines and newspapers are printed.

Circulation

The circulation of ''Suomen Kuvalehti'' was 102,000 copies in 2007 and 96,000 copies in 2009. In 2010 its circulation fell to 88,667 copies. The 2011 circulation of the weekly grew to 91,277 copies. But, it fell to 86,786 copies in 2012 and to 79,275 copies in 2013.

References

External links

Official site
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