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Passengers flock to ferries between Finland, Estonia
NewsRoom Finland
The current economic downturn has not taken a toll on cruises, indicate figures released by ferry companies on Monday. The route ...
 
Baltic presidents urge residents to participate in "Heartbeat for Baltics" relay race
Baltic Course
The three Baltic States' presidents urge the residents of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to put aside their daily chores to ...
 
Swedbank Issues Stock to Bolster Bottom Line
Chris V. Nicholson, NY Times
Swedbank, one of the largest Nordic lenders, announced Monday that it was issuing preferred stock to raise about 15 ...
 
Järvi to lead Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press

Neeme Järvi, the Estonian-born music director emeritus of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, is returning to his ...
 
Internet has reduced but not killed off samizdat in Russia
VIENNA, August 17 – Despite the expectations of many, the Internet has not killed off samizdat publications in the Russian Federation, although the ...
 
Skype’s profit in Estonia up 22.8 percent
BNS
Skype Technologies OÜ, the Estonian development arm of the free VoIP telephony provider Skype, earned a profit of 28 million kroons (EUR 1.8 ...
 
UFO punches hole in cloud above turbines (3)
All News Web - The World's First Intergalactic News Service

Photographer Avo Siim was taking pictures of wind turbines near the town of ...
 
Ilves presented Beautiful Estonian Home 2009 awards
On Sunday at the Kuressaare Cultural Centre President Toomas Hendrik Ilves presented awards to the winners of the “Beautiful Estonian Home ...
 
Unemployment at record high among Estonian men
According to Statistics Estonia, the unemployment rate rose to 13.5% in the 2nd quarter of the current year. A year ago the unemployment rate was 4%. ...
 
Ukraine has nearly 3,000 Russian-language schools, but Russia doesn’t have even a single Ukrainian-language one
VIENNA, August 17 – Despite Moscow’s frequent charges and complaints, Kyiv pays for the operation of nearly 3,000 Russian-language schools as ...
 
Montreal Estonian Society Golf Tournament 2009 (1)
A healthy walk in the woods has long been part of the cultural tradition of Estonians. Well before Bill Bryson took his walk in the woods, the ...
 
Adams gets stamp of approval (2)

Prior to the Bryan Adams’ sold out concert in Ottawa on August 12, Canada Post (Jim Phillips, Director Stamp Services at Canada Post) presented ...
 
History, used and abused
Chris Patten. European Voice

In her book “The uses and abuses of history” the historian Margaret Macmillan tells a story about two Americans ...
 
Government of Canada to Announce Initiatives to Help Canadian Pork Producers
OTTAWA, Ontario, August 14, 2009 – The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of National Revenue and Minister of State (Agriculture) and ...
 
Estonia embraced online gambling (2)
The Baltic nation of Estonia, long respected for its computer technology capabilities, will soon be open for business in an online gambling ...
 
Copenhagen climate deal would be no fairytale
Rob Lyons, Spiked

Until we have new technology in place, we can either cut greenhouse gas emissions or tackle poverty — but not both.

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Ethnic divides in Russian army take dangerous new turn
VIENNA, August 14 – Ethnic and religious differences have long been a source of tension within the Russian armed forces, and many Russians now ...
 
Future Moscow revolutionaries seen using nationalism the way Lenin used Marxism, recent Russian novels suggest (1)
VIENNA, August 14 – A close reading of serious contemporary Russian fiction, a Moscow novelist and critic says, suggests that “the main force ...
 
NEFC posts Seedrioru photo gallery
The National Estonian Foundation in Canada announces that they have added a new photo gallery to the NEFC website: happy memories at Seedrioru ...
 
Kingstonian Estonians celebrate fifth annual Wolfe Island picnic
Kingstonian Estonians held their fifth annual Suvine Koosbiibimine on Saturday, August 8, 2009.
 
Medvedev seeks permission to invade (1)
Russian President Dimity Medvedev (voice of ex-president and present Prime Minister Vladimir Putin) has introduced a bill to the Parliament ...
 
August 23 marks Soviet-Nazi joint culpability in starting World War II (1)
Seventy years ago Russia and Germany struck the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that carved up eastern Europe among the two totalitarian regimes. Moscow is ...
 
Russian Military Weakness Could Delay Conflict with Ukraine
Pavel Felgenhauer, Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 156 August 13, 2009

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has publicly attacked his ...
 
Estonia's Economy Shrinks 16.6% (3)
Joel Sherwood, WSJ.com
Estonia's recession deepened in the second quarter, but the quarterly rate of decline eased, suggesting the ...
 
EU Says Putin's Abkhazia Visit Not Helpful
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -- The European Union has criticized Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia ...
 
Microsoft Office coming to Nokia smartphones
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Microsoft and Nokia, in a challenge to Research in Motion's Blackberry, announced Wednesday that Microsoft Office software ...
 
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