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Unburied dead
Poland's historical epic in the limelight

A crime and a lie are the twin strands in the shameful tragedy of Katyn: the massacre of 20,000 ...
 
Tallinn again up for Intelligent Community of the Year title
The Intelligent Community Forum announced on January 14 its list of the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year, each a model for economic ...
 
The New Cold War
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It is of no small significance that the invitation to the international launch of "The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the ...
 
Haukka grupp, a spy-fi documentary
During ESTDOCS 07 this past October we became familiar with a new moderator, Kiur Aarma, a 32-year-old filmmaker whose prolific filmmaking repertoire ...
 
Van der Linden’s farewell deal with Putin
Vladimir Socor

On January 17 Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) President Rene van der Linden paid a farewell visit to Russian ...
 
Idiotic Nashi


The much-anticipated trial against four alleged organizers of the Tallinn riots began this week amid a tranquil atmosphere at home and the ...
 
Repatriation plan appeals to few ethnic Russians
The first year of an extended program to repatriate ethnic Russians living abroad has failed to produce the wave of immigrants that proponents touted ...
 
The day the Soviet Union died (4)
BAKU —– The exact place and time the Soviet Union died continues to be a matter of debate. Some say it occurred when Gorbachev handed over the ...
 
Some post-Soviet states light up the sky; others don’t
BAKU — Comparing the economic development of the post-Soviet states is something like comparing apples and oranges: the 15 started at different ...
 
Voices Relyea headline USMA benefit concert bill
Soprano Anna Tamm-Relyea, well-known to Canadian Estonians, is a key member of VOICES RELYEA, performing at a benefit concert for Toronto's ...
 
Interpreting Estonia’s recent history (9)
Instead of doing penance for their sins, former ideologues brazenly justify their past

(A summarized translation of Jüri Saar’s article ...
 
Bird Droppings from Estonia: Onegin in Tartu (1)
It gives me great pleasure to report a fine co-operation between Russia and Estonia after a year when neighbourly relations took a decided turn for ...
 
7th annual Baltic Film Festival in Toronto
Three feature films, one from each of the three Baltic states, more indie than Hollywood, were screened in Toronto last weekend as the 7th annual ...
 
Kaili Maimets in recital
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A flute recital by Kaili Maimets will take place on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., at the Walter Hall in the Edward Johnson Building, ...
 
On the 10th anniversary of the joint US-Baltic Charter
President Bush's Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the US-Baltic Charter

January 16, 2008

I send greetings to those celebrating the ...
 
Sarmite Bulte takes aim at Don Valley West
The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Provincial Minister of Education, held her New Year’s levee Sunday, January 13. Among those in attendance were John ...
 
Contest: introduce Estonia on YouTube
The Estonian Foreign Ministry has announced a contest for amateur video clips that introduce Estonia. The contest will be conducted on the internet ...
 
The Baltic Model (16)
MARIS RIEKSTINS and RONALD ASMUS

RIGA — It is difficult to recall today the West's hostility in the early 1990s toward Baltic membership in ...
 
Komis get a nationality ministry again but will it save them?
BAKU — The Komis again have a ministry of nationalities but its leaders appear more concerned about using it to counter Finno-Ugric activities in ...
 
No compromise with communism (13)
A history repeated

One issue must be confronted and clearly stated. There can be no compromise of any kind with communism. Whether theoretical or ...
 
Putin loyalist to head Europe’s human rights and democracy watchdog
Mikhail Margelov, a prominent Russian politician not known for diplomatic stability or friendliness towards Estonia, may become the new president of ...
 
Looking for photos of class of 1943
I'm in need of some photos for a documentary that I am making of an Estonian school class of 1943. Would any reader have material of the ...
 
A successful visit for the Tartu, Tallinn and Toronto chapters of korp! Amicitia (1)
Meeting Lydia Sild (centre), one of the three remaining members of Amicitia from pre-occupation Estonia, was an exciting event for the visiting amicad from Estonia. Liina Kanger (left) the current "rebasvanem" for the Tartu chapter listens attentively as Elo Madissoon, the secretary for the Tartu chapter, records on her laptop every word uttered by Lydia as she describes how she was the last Amicitia rebane before the occupation, how she received her colours at a secret meeting at Kokoko cafe and how, in the face of the Swedish government's decision to repatriate Baltic soldiers to the Soviet Union, she fled in fear from Sweden to Canada - in a sailboat! Photo: Hille Raud, Tallinn - pics/2008/01/18692_1_t.jpg
This past November, the Toronto chapter of the women’s academic organization korp! Amicitia played host to a group of 34 members (referred to as ...
 
Ernst Julius Öpik – the man (1)
Calculations determine that if an asteroid raced through the earth’s atmosphere at cosmic velocity, it would be a speed so intense that it would ...
 
Europe after historical enlargement
IUA Institute for European Studies publication

Last spring the Institute for European Studies at International University Audentes (IUA) published ...
 
Councillor Michael Thompson, a quiet realist (1)
Toronto’s Ward 37 (Scarborough Centre) Councillor Michael Thompson is almost always opposed to Mayor David Miller on economic policy and ...
 
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