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Unlikely Pirates: The 'Arctic Sea' Mystery's Estonia Link
Gregory Feifer, RFE/RL
TALLINN -- Nearly two decades after the end of communism lifted the Iron Curtain from this tiny former Soviet republic, ...
 
Dear Friends of Estonian Culture,
Starting today and lasting until November 9, the Kids Euro Festival is bringing 150 free performances, screenings and workshops, each representing a ...
 
The reverberations of Soviet totalitarianism in Finland
Sympathies and contradictions

The following is a condensed translation of Imbi Paju’s article in the most recent edition of “Maailma ...
 
U.S. “A team” at CNE air show
This is a little late, but merits mentioning still. The U.S. sent their F-22 (their top flight air superiority fighter) and the US Navy "Blue ...
 
Insightful “Estonian Summer Homes Association” meeting
Open forum puts ESHA membership onto common wavelength!

In the beginning

The Estonian Children’s Summer Camp Jõekääru (Camp JK) ...
 
When you marry an Estonian, you inherit the entire family (33)
All sorts of stories about Eastern Europe circulated in the early 90s. One was that for a pair of Levi’s blue jeans you could buy a car. It was ...
 
Baltic brinkmanship
Outsiders are wrestling with Latvia’s problems. The government is one of them
From The Economist print edition, Oct 15th 2009

Alive does not ...
 
Estonian ministry draws up Made in Estonia plan
BNS - A foreign investments and export plan that will presumably be discussed at a government session next week is intended to attract affluent ...
 
Statement of Michael C. Polt
Ambassador-designate to the Republic of Estonia
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Madam Chair, Senator DeMint, Members of the Committee,

I ...
 
Estonian forest products available in US (1)
Dear fellow Estonians,

Please check out this website to find all kinds of wonderful products that hail from the deep forests of Estonia.

...
 
US planning to treat Russia as it did the USSR, Moscow commentator says
VIENNA, October 14 – The Obama Administration “has decided to conduct its relations with just as it did with the Soviet Union,” an approach ...
 
Meeting with Nord Stream representatives (1)
IRL faction in the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament), October 14, 2009
Compiled by Mari-Ann Kelam

Romans Baumanis (Nord Stream Regional Advisor for ...
 
Kostabi: I'm still kicking
New York Post
"People talk about me like I'm dead. I'm only 48," Mark Kostabi told Hampton Sheet publisher Joan Jedell at the ...
 
Skype CEO says focus on mobile, corporate push
Tarmo Virki

TALLINN (Reuters) - Internet telephony firm Skype, a unit of eBay, will focus on growing its mobile and corporate business next year ...
 
Estonia Wants Development of Well-Functioning European Union Foreign Service
EMFA
Foreign Minister Urmas Paet spoke to his Dutch, Belgian, Luxembourgish, Latvian and Lithuanian colleagues about European Union development ...
 
President Ilves cast his vote for the Abja Rural Municipality Council by Internet from Macedonia*
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves who is on an official visit to Macedonia* participated today in the elections for the local government councils in ...
 
Oligarchs destroyed Russian democracy to save their own privileges, Moscow commentator says
VIENNA, October 13 – In recent weeks, Moscow commentator Aleksandr Skobov notes, there has been “a significant enlivening of the discussion about ...
 
Nobel Geopolitics
George Friedman, STRTAFOR

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the ...
 
As CIS enters its ‘death agony,’ Moscow reprises another tactic against Ukraine
VIENNA October 8 – Over the last decade, the Commonwealth of Independent States has been reduced to little more than a club of presidents of the 11 ...
 
Lembitu fathers-sons work bee

Lembitu Malev kicked off this fall’s scouting and guiding talgute season with their traditional fathers-sons work bee last weekend. The ...
 
IMF: all three Baltic States have wide differences in coping with recession
“You wouldn’t believe the tremendous differences even in micro regions like the Baltic states. All three states are at different stages in the ...
 
Opposition mounts against Blair for Council president
Simon Taylor, European Voice

The national governments of the European Union are divided over whether to make Tony Blair, the former UK prime ...
 
Barroso fears powerful 'European president'
Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has sided with smaller member states in trying to restrict ...
 
Postimees enjoys circulation increase
According to the Estonian Newspaper Association (EALL), Postimees increased the number of copies printed the most in September among the major ...
 
President of Estonia and NATO Secretary General: the foundation of the alliance is collective defence (1)
At President Toomas Hendrik Ilves’s meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen today, the discussions focused on the alliance’s ...
 
Ailing fast
Bad news from Latvia raises fears of contagion across eastern Europe
From Economist.com

The patient emerges from intensive care, hurls the ...
 
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