The Federation of Russian Canadians is a left-leaning cultural organization for Russian immigrants to Canada and their descendants.
5-575: (Redirected from Frk ) FRK may refer to: Federation of Russian Canadians Finnish Red Cross (Swedish: Finlands Röda Kors ) Frankish language Frégate Island Airport , in the Seychelles Fructokinase Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Fyn-related kinase Martin Frk (born 1993), Czech ice hockey player Topics referred to by
10-596: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Federation of Russian Canadians It is the successor of the Russian Farmer-Worker Clubs which were closed by the government at the beginning of World War II as a suspected subversive organization due to its links with the Communist Party of Canada . In 1942, after the Nazi invasion of
15-763: The FRK still has community centres in Toronto and Vancouver. The FRK organized some 15 branches in various Canadian cities and published the newspaper Vestnik (Herald), long the only Russian newspaper in Canada. The FRK was associated with the Labor-Progressive Party and was affiliated with the Canadian Peace Congress . This article about an organization in Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
20-646: The USSR , the organization reappeared as the Federation of Russian Canadians, known also by its Russian initials as the FRK. At its height, the FRK had 15 branches across Canada and published a newspaper, Vestnik . In 1944, the organization had around 4,000 members but, as a result of the Cold War and the defection of Igor Gouzenko , that number fell to 2,709 by 1949. In the late 1980s, the group had less than 800 members. While Vestnik ceased publication in 1994,
25-450: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title FRK . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FRK&oldid=1078714248 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Swedish-language text Short description
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