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Smart youth (8)
A resource Estonia can bank on in the future

Its agriculture can’t compete with countries blessed with longer growing season. It is not ...
 
The Russian state again wins out over the Russian people (4)
VIENNA – Despite the efforts of many Russians and their friends over the last 15 years, the Russian state’s just-completed Duma campaign and its ...
 
Russia's new October
"One man with one gun can control 100 without one," V.I. Lenin once said. The man who gave birth to Soviet Russia believed that strength is ...
 
Taisi Pettai is the new voice of Yukon’s Eesti Pop (1)
Eesti Pop can now be heard in Carmacks, Yukon Territory on 87.7 FM. Although Carmacks is home to only about 500 people, many thousands of potential ...
 
Why I jump out of airplanes (3)
Arizona it was, and once again I was on track. For a couple of years I spent time doing a few training camps and getting to know the DZ’s and the ...
 
Stories from Putin's Russia
Putin talks at a Russian school. Ends his own speech and asks the kids whether they have any questions.

From the back row, little Vovik raises ...
 
Not a Christmas stocking, but an eesti sokk!
[imgt="pics/2007/12/18371_1.jpg", thumb="pics/2007/12/18371_1_t.jpg", w="133", h="200", p="left", c="Since Estonian Santas arrive in person on Christmas Eve, there’s no need for stockings hung by the fireplace. This “[i] It makes sense that the onslaught of cheaply-made, mass-produced Christmas decorations would reach Eesti. How could it not? But being the nostalgic ...
 
Estonian Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo at CSIS (1)
"Cyberspace: A New Security Dimension at Our Fingertips"
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Transcript, Audio, and Video ...
 
Rasmus Lumi gets early Christmas present (13)
Hawk Corporation president Martin Habicht presented the Estonian chargé d'affaires Rasmus Lumi with a Hawk Hoodie sweatshirt. Mr. Lumi was ...
 
Estonia becomes member of ITF
On Wednesday, December 5, Estonia became a member of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research ...
 
Saku Porter chosen best Estonian winter beer (1)
Sixteen beer specialists from Estonia and Finland recently sampled Estonian dark beers in a blind tasting. The verdict? Saku Porter is the best ...
 
GREEN HEARTS
Illar Muul, PhD
President, Integrated Conservation Research, Inc.

For thousands of years humans lived close to nature. Everything they needed, ...
 
Destabilization of Estonian currency (5)
A victim of circumstance or deliberate campaign?

Beginning last Friday false information was posted on Russian language internet forums. The ...
 
Alberta’s Estonians DVD documentary series of premieres in Alberta
Estonia’s Chargé d’Affaires as guest of honour

Rasmus Lumi, Chargé d’Affaires for Estonia in Canada, visited Alberta from Ottawa ...
 
Kathleen Wynne on Ontario’s education plans (33)
"First of all, I'm thrilled to have been asked by the premier to continue in the education portfolio," said the Honourable Kathleen ...
 
Stalin 'documents' on the Church are forgeries, Moscow historian says (11)
VIENNA — A document purportedly showing that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had a change of heart about Soviet anti-religious policy and ended ...
 
Vaikiv enamus
For me and many others yesterday's 'devaluation scare' in Tallinn reached me the usual way — through the websites of Postimees and ...
 
Russia's Saami follow lead of their kin in Scandinavia
VIENNA – Explicitly drawing on the experience of their co-ethnic Laplanders in Sweden, Norway and Finland, the leaders of the 1790 Saami in ...
 
Stalin's children The New York Times
For many years, Orlando Figes observes, the memoirs of intellectual dissidents, like Eugenia Ginzburg and Nadezhda Mandelstam, and the work of ...
 
Singing Revolution in the States (4)
NOW IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!! The Singing Revolution is opening in theaters for all to see!

The Singing Revolution will be opening in theaters ...
 
A paper in his pocket (5)
Washington and the Baltics • Historical perspective series

Incredibly, the aims and policies of the most destructive worldwide war in history ...
 
Bird Droppings from Estonia: Tartu mews
On Hallowe’en I, very appropriately, popped next door to the Vanemuine theatre to see something odd. I had hesitated but curiosity got the better ...
 
Ancient Powers of the Baltic Sea
This new book from Aspasia outlines the historical background to the events in the Finnish epic, The Kalevala. It discusses the historical ...
 
Creeping anglicization (2)
Worries about the effects of English on national and cultural identity have been voiced the world over. The impact of the Victorian empire, where the ...
 
Why I jump out of airplanes (2)
Today I am approaching my 700th skydive, and it has been an exhilarating journey, albeit not without some bumps and bruises along the way. Back when ...
 
CBC finally airs documentary on Falun Gong
On Tuesday November 20th the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) finally aired the documentary "Beyond the Red Wall: The Persecution of ...
 
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