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Russian Orthodoxy has become ‘Church of the new martyrs,’ scholar says (4)
VIENNA – The Russian Orthodox Church has canonized more than 1600 martyrs who suffered persecution at the hands of the Soviets, almost four times ...
 
Bird Droppings from Estonia: Lost in Latvia
The last opera lover’s trip to Riga was a great day out! The usual suspects gathered in front of the Vanemuine theatre and there were so many ...
 
Estonian minister announces language beauty contest GOOGLE (3)
TALLINN (AFP) — Estonia is planning a beauty contest with a difference to mark its 90th birthday, according to a report Monday: the winner will be ...
 
RAINFOREST CONSERVATION STRATEGY
Rainforest Residences and Rainforest Restoration

Illar Muul, PhD
President, Integrated Conservation Research, Inc.

Integrated ...
 
BalticShop.com’s Christmas list
The Christmas shopping season is just around the corner. The old adage, "the early bird gets the worm" remains appropriate. Many of the ...
 
Music for the Time of Souls: Dvorák’s Requiem
There have been some fine concerts this season in Tartu. This year’s hingedeaeg Requiem was Antonín Dvorák’s (1841-1904), a work new to me. ...
 
Some things change, others don’t (7)
Well, I made it home safely from what has become my annual trip to Toronto to shop at the Estonian Girl Guide Christmas bazaar, nibble on tasty soul ...
 
Why I jump out of airplanes
The author is a member of a team of skydivers over forty years of age that recently completed a world record of 113 skydivers joined in formation.
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52nd annual EKKT art show
The annual art show by the Society of Estonian Artists in Toronto (EKKT) held at the gallery in the Estonian House was again a visual success. The ...
 
Peter Van Loan is taking on the Senate (4)
At a press conference on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, November 13, Peter Van Loan, Minister Responsible for Democratic Reform, joined Senator Marjorie ...
 
Feds raid Liberty Dollar and seize and freeze everything (32)
 
Stupid slogan
For some odd reason, Austrian Airlines decided to promote its operations by comparing itself to the KGB Soviet secret police. According to its ...
 
Anu Tali, MCO fail to agree
Estonian conductor Anu Tali and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra (MCO) have not agreed to terms, reported Robert Everett-Green in the Globe and Mail on ...
 
Nukes in Võru
There were as many as eight Soviet military objects in Võru county: a surveillance station in Meremäe, a communications unit in Mõniste, missile ...
 
Estonian think tank completes a report on provision of defence aid
On November 8 Nordic and Baltic Ministers of Defence concluded their meeting in Stockholm where they discussed the proposals laid out in the joint ...
 
Russia as the new Donald Rumsfeld
Russia has emerged as the most divisive issue in the European Union since Donald Rumsfeld split the European club into ‘new' and ‘old' ...
 
Most Russians say human rights are violated in their country
VIENNA – Seventy-two percent of Russians – nearly three out of four – say that human rights are being violated in their country at the present ...
 
Ottawa Baltic Oktoberfest
 
Dollar collapse will cripple European economy
The father of Reagonomics and former Wall Street Journal editor Paul Craig Roberts has warned that the collapsing dollar will eventually cripple the ...
 
US troops may stay longer in Europe than planned
Two of the remaining 4 US combat brigades left in Europe were supposed to move to US bases over the next year. 43,000 US troops are currently posted ...
 
America wake up! Europe wants to be a superpower
European Union leaders have reached agreement on a new treaty that many Europeans hope will transform the 27-nation bloc into a superpower capable of ...
 
Ron Paul says Federal Reserve 'robbed' Americans of their wealth (8)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee on November 8, but had to face criticism from ...
 
Surprise! Russian schoolbooks say there was no occupation (7)
The title above is facetious. In fact a new Russian history book now used in Russian schools even presents Joseph Stalin in a favourable light. The ...
 
Living on the edge of the volcano
Crissa Constantine. Broken Doll, Broadmoor Books, SterlingHouse Publishing, Pittsburgh, 2007. ISBN 1-56315-389-0

Readers of this newspaper and ...
 
The Star’s Joe Fiorito stirs things up at CEMA
[imgt="pics/2007/11/18098_1.jpg", thumb="pics/2007/11/18098_1_t.jpg", w="197", h="200", p="right", c="Joe Fiorito’s columns for the Star consistently make for interesting reading, especially when he includes the opinions of “the woman who scrambles [his] eggs.”
Photo: Adu Raudkivi"]The October speaker at the Canadian Ethnic Media Association (CEMA) monthly meeting was a Toronto Star columnist ...
 
Language conflicts heating up in the post-Soviet states (9)
VIENNA, November 8 – Three events this week – one in the Komi Republic of the Middle Volga, a second in Ukraine, and a third in the capital of ...
 
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