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The Independence Day diplomatic reception becomes a celebration
Jane Pitfield, Toronto councillor and the first declared opponent of David Miller in the next municipal mayoral tilt, was among the notable guests at the Estonian Independence Day Gala organized by EKN and the Estonian Honourary General Consulate at the Estonian House on February 24th. Photo: Adu Raudkivi - pics/2006/12656_1.jpg
"This time it is going to be different," said Estonian Central Council (EKN) President, Avo Kittask, adding, "We are going to have a ...
 
HANDSCAPES at UN Headquarters
The Estonian art exhibition HANDSCAPES opened on Thursday, February 23rd at the UN Headquarters in New York. The exhibit is marking the sixtieth ...
 
Lõõm 06: Art in Dialogue: New York–Estonia
March 24th - April 21st , Estonian House in New York
    
For the first time, the Foundation for Estonian Arts and Letters and Estonian ...
 
2007 LEP emblem design competition
The organizers of the West Coast Estonian Days (Lääneranniku Eesti Päevad, LEP) have announced a competition for the design of the emblem for the ...
 
War of Independence memorial
Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and Tallinn Mayor Jüri Ratas have discussed cooperation on a proposed memorial to the Estonian War of Independence ...
 
Ottawa's Baltic Film Festival
The Canadian Film Institute is hosting the sixth annual festival of impressive films from the three Baltic nations, March 9-12. Since its inception ...
 
'The first nail in the coffin of communism'
Fifty years ago this month, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered to a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ...
 
Estonia's long-awaited new art museum KUMU opens its doors
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A glimpse of some of the fun at the opening of KUMU, the new 24 000 m² main building of the Art Museum of Estonia on February 17. (The name comes ...
 
The silence that keeps us (15)
This month, we heard from Estonia that the court case against three men who attacked me and my family in April of 2004 in Hiiumaa is proceeding. They ...
 
Estonian Language, Literature, and Culture Professorship at the University of Toronto.
This article concerns the current project of the Estonian Arts and Letters Society, which is to support the creation of an Estonian Language, ...
 
Mike Wilson becomes Ambassador to the US
Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney era minister of finance, minister of industry, science and technology and minister for international trade, ...
 
Putin’s ';Heim in Reich'; policy seen backfiring in Russia and abroad (13)
TALLINN – President Vladimir Putin’s decision to push for the „return” of ethnic Russians and other Russian speakers to the Russian ...
 
';Lembi-Torino 2006'; a winner
Sunday morning's news was that cross-country ace Kristina Smigun had triumphed at the Torino games, winning gold for Estonia. Lembitu's youngsters - perhaps a future Andrus Veerpalu among them - competed on a much shorter track at Kotkajärve, the back hilled section though, was as demanding as it has ever been. From the left, waiting for the staggered start are Eedu Otsa (#9), Andres Jeeger, Markus Jeeger, Toomas Voitk (#8), Robert Vilde (#7) and Mark Pettinen. Photo: Enno Agur - pics/2006/12520_2.jpg
The younger generations of the Lembitu Malev scouting family spent last weekend at Kotkajärve, enjoying winter at its finest while focusing on the ...
 
Estonia’s impressive finish
The above was a paragraph heading in the Diplomatica column of The Ottawa Citizen, February 8th, bringing attention once again to the skiing prowess ...
 
Van Loan named Parliamentary Secretary (6)
Peter Van Loan, MP, York-Simcoe (Ontario) and OK, Jõekääru was named Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new ...
 
Soviet-era myths about Winter War with Finland slow to dissipate (10)
TALLINN – Soviet-era myths about the most prominent events in the 20th century have been challenged if not always completely dispelled by the ...
 
Liberal leadership II
With all the frantic phone calls, whispering in the halls of power and official denials of desiring of power we finally have a group of three ...
 
Estonian Independence Day 2006 (22)
The president of the Ottawa Estonian Society called me a little while back and asked if I would consider speaking at our annual celebration of ...
 
Canadian Olympian has Estonian lineage
Skeleton World Cup champion Melissa Hollingsworth-Richards, a member of the Canadian winter Olympic team at Torino, is a 4th generation descendant of ...
 
IHF report highlights plight of Mari (1)
A new report by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights on the increasingly desperate situation of the Mari minority in the Middle ...
 
Putin boasts about Russian missile
"Russia has tested missile systems that no one in the world has," bragged Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference on January ...
 
“Ruberg” now available on DVD
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The 1973 Alar Kivilo film "Ruberg" is now available on DVD.

The Montreal Estonian Society has acquired the rights to duplicate and ...
 
Harper violates ethics on first day in office (1)
Stephen Harper became the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada on Monday, February 6, 11 am at Rideau Hall, where the Governor-General swore in a smaller ...
 
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter to Speak at Lithuanian Independence Day
Commemoration in Chicago
Washington, DC (JBANC) --- Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan 11th) travels to Chicago to address the upcoming ...
 
Russian radical right becomes more organized in 2005
TALLINN – In the course of 2005, organized political groups displaced skinheads as the most active force within Russian radical ethnonationalism, a ...
 
PACE condemns crimes of communist regimes (34)
Neo-communists protest

Last week the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decisively moved forward on “measures to dismantle ...
 
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