Contact: Leif Rantala <kim.rantala@pp1.inet.fi>
Date: October 1998
Leif Rantala at the University of Lapland is engaged in various activities concerning the Saami of the Kola Peninsula, i.e. writing articles about their situation, acting as an interpreter (Saami-Russian-Swedish-Finnish-English) at meetings and conferences, and he worked out a support program under the umbrella of the Saami Council in 1993. Leif Rantala also holds lectures about the Saami people at Murmansk Pedagogical Institute.