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Leader: Motivational realpolitik
American foreign policy has been under siege ever since it became apparent that military action in Afghanistan and Iraq would not return the balance ...
 
Welcoming Jessica LeCroy
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The new US Consul General in Toronto Jessica LeCroy is an elegant lady whose résumé is phenomenal. She speaks five foreign languages, has had ...
 
Photo competition and show
The Estonian House Art Committee's 8th annual photo competition and show will be held Saturday, April 16 and Sunday April 17. Again, photos ...
 
Leader: Opportunities and challenges (1)
Should they or shouldn't they? The presidents of the Baltic Republics have been invited to Moscow for May 9th, to take part in events marking ...
 
A greater headache than expected?
Ukraine's new President Viktor Yushchenko has two new problems, now that he has completed the long perilous road to victory. First on the list ...
 
Spellbound stories
Asta Willmann. Spell, published by Maris Makko, (Maris.Makko@mail.ee) distributed by Considine books, online www.abebooks.com/home/consdidine . ISBN ...
 
The world’s eyes on Ukraine
A day after western Christmas, Ukraine went to the polls again, after the previous presidential election vote was ruled null and void by the ...
 
Forbes magazine: Estonia’s e-republic ahead of richer European neighbours (1)
An authoritative voice of the international business community, Forbes magazine claims Estonia is outpacing the rest of Europe in information ...
 
Leader: Waive some rules (1)
Failing natural disasters of epic proportions, such as this week’s monster tsunami, the post-Christmas week sees newspapers pad their pages not ...
 
Of Denial (26)
Have you every wondered why charlatans such as Ernst Zundel are almost immediately pilloried for denying the holocaust, but apparently prestigious ...
 
A tree for New Year’s and the second round of Christmas
It’s December 29 and “Santa Claus Johannes’s spruce outlet” is still enjoying brisk business on Liivalaia tänav in Tallinn. Photo: Riina Kindlam - pics/2004/8714.jpg
In Canadian cities, Christmas tree lots generally disappear by dawn Dec. 25. Estonians bring home a tree by Christmas Eve as well, regardless of ...
 
Leader: The Pinochet-Putin specter
When the leaders of Pacific Rim countries gathered for the APEC — Asia-Pacific-Economic-Cooperation — summit in Santiago last month, it was seen ...
 
Van Loan meets with Estonia’s Charge D`Affaires
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OTTAWA - York-Simcoe Member of Parliament, Peter Van Loan, recently met with the representative of the Embassy of Estonia in Canada Mr.Argo ...
 
An adventure into the past, present and future: Estonia revisited (3) (1)
Kadrina embraces us

After an hour we arrived in the small town of Kadrina. At the Community Center the local choir greeted us by singing as we ...
 
An adventure into the past, present and future: Estonia revisited (2)
The significance of numbers

The fervor for the festivals has dwindled somewhat from the time of the Soviet occupation, when they truly were a ...
 
The little tree that stood (1)
Decorative corner of the first day of issue envelope along with one of the 1999 Estonian Christmas stamps commemorating the first public Christmas tree in Tallinn in 1441. - pics/2004/8638_1.jpg
If you type “first Christmas tree” in an internet search engine and start poking around for the various versions of how, where and when the ...
 
Truman-Reagan Freedom Awards reception
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC hosted the Victimss of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Truman-Reagan Fredom Awards Reception on ...
 
The Russian bear growls (2)

A new Canadian magazine, The Walrus, had a most interesting coverpiece recently, written by Paul Webster," Is the West Rearming Russia ? ...
 
An adventure into the past, present and future (4)
(Arved Plaks lives in Texas, but has been singing with the Toronto Estonian Men’s Chorus when TEM performs abroad.
 
Estonian Film “Somnambulance” (2)
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The award winning Estonian film “Somnambulance” was screened here in Ottawa on November 26, 2004, as part of the National Library Archives ...
 
A sidebar explanation - why the softwood lumber debate
I asked our editor Tõnu Naelapea if he'd send me to Ottawa to cover the U.S. President George W. Bush on his first visit to Canada (as ...
 
Leader: Up with your nukes (1)
Duking it out over nukes and Ukes, that is what our peaceful protesters are doing. The nuclear issue as most often presented, depending on the nation ...
 
You must fläsh north of 60 (1)
A HELKUR or pedestrian reflector is the cheapest form of life insurance in northern climes. Canadian-born Elle Palumäe has been shimmering away the dark winters in Tallinn for 10 years now. Although kids’ hats, jackets and shoes often have reflectors already sewn on, the most well known (and seen) are those hanging on a string from a coat button or zipper. Elle’s reflective team includes her kids: 6-month-old Tuuli Lea, soon to be 7-year-old Tiiu Ilo wearing her kadripäeva (St. Catherine’s Day) mask and 4-year-old Ott Jaagup. - pics/2004/det1.jpg
The winters are dark up here, in and around 60 degrees north. More precisely, Eesti lies between 58 and 59 and a half degrees north of the equator. ...
 
Estonians ask: who’s a fascist? (IV) (3)
In the previous articles we briefly described the situation, events, relationships of occupied Estonia, the period to which Soviets have referred as ...
 
80 years since Communist coup attempt
In the early morning hours of 1 December 1924, a couple of hundred armed Communist conspirators attempted a coup d’etat in Tallinn. The ...
 
Gentle nocturnes, etudes for insomniacs (1)
Hedvig Hanson. Nii õrn on öö. MT Holding, 2004, 46:18
Kvetch reasonably, and yea, ye shall be heard, rewarded with generous and thoughtful ...
 
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