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HELGI LEESMENT AND BOB TIPMAN

On Saturday June 25, approximately 100 people of Estonian descent gathered at the historic Linda Hall, near ...
 
West Coast Estonian Days of 2005 a success! (2)
Vancouver’s Leo Allas delivered a very illuminating speech at the Academic Luncheon. For this event members of various fraternities and sororities ...
 
A world of difference (1)
On the day that Andrus Värnik became, with a mighty heave of the javelin into the skies of Helsinki the first ever Estonian world champion in track ...
 
Russian repression of Finno-Ugric nation intensifies
TARTU - The Maris, a 600,000-strong Finno-Ugric nationality in the Middle Volga region of the Russian Federation, are increasingly threatened by the ...
 
China conference at U of T
A conference on the subject of Chinese independence at the University of Toronto on August 5 turned out to be very informative, very scary and ...
 
Fugitives of the Forest (3)
I’ve been buying all kinds of “bargain bin” books lately. One was “Being Red” by Howard Fast. Another was titled “Fugitives of the ...
 
Estonian and Saami Theatres Start Co-operating with the Kalevala in Estonia
In the end of July and the beginning of August, an Estonian-Saami troupe was performing in Tartu and Tallinn (Estonia). The play titled Lemminkainen, ...
 
AN ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM BANNED IN RUSSIA NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD
The DVD version of a documentary film banned for demonstration in the Mari El republic of Russia will be put on the market this Friday. The Mari Song ...
 
Occupation or voluntary accession? (Part 4) (31)
It was the Soviet Union itself that presented the League of Nations on February 6, 1933 the criteria for defining an “aggressor” state as one who ...
 
West Coast Estonian Days of 2005 a success!
The biennial West Coast Estonian Days (Lääneranniku Eesti Päevad - LEP) were held this year at Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, from July 4 ...
 
Tallinn Chamber Music Festival 2005 (1)
The Tallinn Chamber Music Festival 2005 will be held for the first time from August 17 – 21 in co-operation with the Tallinn City Council. All ...
 
How the West is helping Red China (14)
Though the Communist Chinese Party has lost three million of its members, is persecuting the non-military spiritual Falun Gong and has proven to have ...
 
Occupation or voluntary accession? (Part 3) (20)
Directive 02622

It took 50 years for Estonia and the West to discover the contents of the secret People’s Defense Commissar Directive 02622 ...
 
New “Estonia” piano for Toronto Estonian House
There is a full-size concert grand piano at Toronto’s Estonian House that was procured by the Estonian Arts Council several years ago. ...
 
The Vikings are coming!
Fashion designer Riina Pintson is busy designing viking themed costumes for this year’s Forest University (Metsaülikool). Participants, along with ...
 
3 million Chinese have quit Party (1)
The Epoch Times, a New York based weekly newspaper and website written in several languages, declared that 3 million Chinese Communist Party members ...
 
Dear friend of the lowly mushroom,
Dear friend of the lowly mushroom,

This is your last notice for the season about our mushroom Foray, Sep 2-5 at Killdevil Lodge in Gros Morne. Not ...
 
Impressions of LEP XXVII - 2005 (1)
VANCOUVER - These were the first Lääneranniku Eesti Päevad that I have been to since Los Angeles hosted the West Coast Estonian Days in 1989. So a ...
 
Occupation or voluntary accession? (Part 2) (2)
The Soviet Union’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a ...
 
Thoughts after getting home from LEP (31)
BILLINGS - Since I have been back at home a week, I have thought many times about the past, present and future of being Estonian. I know that sounds ...
 
Noticed in Tallinn: Clear communication
Clear communication is essential to starting relations off on the right foot or keeping them in order. A group of young Estonian entrepreneurs have ...
 
Joint Declaration
on the 65th anniversary of the proclamation of the United States policy of non-recognition regarding the forcible seizure of the Baltic States by the ...
 
Chinese consulate in Calgary could face hate crime charges (1)
The Edmonton Police have completed a yearlong investigation against the Chinese Consulate in Calgary and can lay hate crime charges against them. The ...
 
Estonian racer competes at Toronto Indy
Tõnis Kasemets, born in Estonia in 1974 is the only Estonian driver in the Toyota Atlantic Championship series. Entering its 32nd season of ...
 
Singing revolution update
Dear Friends,

An Estonian friend of ours told us that the Singing Revolution was a battle won one-small-step by one-small-step, and so it is ...
 
Occupation or voluntary accession? (5)
Moscow’s strident insistence that Estonia joined the USSR voluntarily, that the 50-plus years of Soviet subjugation was an amicable partnership ...
 
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