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Russia loses international confidence (3)
Still holds the trust of most Canadians

A recent global attitude survey of 24 countries plus the Palestinian Authority by the Pew Research Center ...
 
Kotkajãrve Metsaülikool (MÜ) 101: Facts and myths
Metsaülikool (MÜ) was established 42 years ago in August 1967 to provide a venue for post-secondary education in Estonian language and culture. ...
 
Forest U (Metsaülikool) wants you!
15-22 August, 2009

This year’s theme is sport and health! This year’s star presenters: Alar Sikk, Estonian mountaineer, who has conquered the ...
 
Are British stag nights really wrecking Riga? (2)
Tim Black, Spiked
The annual silly-season attack on British stags in Latvia is, once again, based on snobbery rather than facts.
 
Making the Impossible Possible
George Soros, Transitions Online, CNN.com

A crusader for open society recalls the beginning of the end of communism in Central and Eastern ...
 
Solidarity and Rage
Joanna Lillis, Transitions Online

Thousands of Uighurs protest in Almaty over China’s crackdown, while Astana treads carefully.
 
Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies No. 5
In June the latest issue in the series The Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies, International University Audentes, Tallinn University ...
 
Learning Estonian, Sesame Street style (5)
In a style similar to learning letters and numbers on the classic children's television show Sesame Street, Estonia seems to have begun an ...
 
United States Reaffirms Commitment to Georgia’s Sovereignty
Merle David Kellerhals Jr., America.gov

Washington — The United States stands by Georgia as it seeks a secure, democratic and united nation, a ...
 
Estonia re-enacts WWII anti-soviet failure
Russia Today

Estonia is holding its annual military exercise based on the 1941 behind-the-frontline raid of the Erna group.
 
Bailed out Buffett: Buffett firms got $95 billion of bailout cash (1)
John Byrne, The Raw Story

The richest man in the world doesn’t need $95 billion dollars.

But apparently, the companies he invests in did. ...
 
Moscow will destroy Russia by copying Soviet nationality policy, Middle Volga peoples say
VIENNA, August 5 – The draft program for Russia’s future nationality policy prepared by the Moscow Institute of Ethnology calls for “the ...
 
Seen in a Toronto parking lot (7)
Russian émigrés seem to have no problem getting vanity plates for their SUVs in Ontario with which to advertise the fact that they yearn for the ...
 
Scrap Metal and Estonian Brides
Rick Steves

I spent a long day touring the Estonian countryside with my guide, Mati. It seems that the life and money are being sucked into the ...
 
Ten years of Putin
Peter Zeihan | STRATFOR

This coming weekend marks the 10th anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s assumption of a leadership position at the Kremlin. ...
 
Success!
Enda Bardell
Every year, the prestigious Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA), of which I’m an active member, holds an open International juried ...
 
Deteriorating security in Chechnya leaves Moscow with few good options (1)
VIENNA, August 4 – Neither the much-ballyhooed end of Russia’s counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya three months ago nor the call by Ichkeria ...
 
Europe prepares for a Baltic blast
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

A writer who projects emotions on to the weather is guilty of the “pathetic fallacy”. But, at the risk of ...
 
Biden Speaks!
David J. Smith*

As US Vice President Joe Biden returned to Washington from his foray to Ukraine and Georgia, the first copies of a Wall Street ...
 
Tourists in Siberia and a Singing Revolution
Rick Steves

It's amazing what a stretch of water can do. The Baltic Sea separates Sweden and Finland from Estonia. And the struggles of the ...
 
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania’s common candidate accepted into the NATO Group of Wise Men
EMFA
Foreign Minister Urmas Paet expressed satisfaction over the acceptance of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania’s common candidate into the NATO ...
 
The funniest side of Estonian pop – Interview with Hendrik of Popidiot
Antonio Díaz, Free Magazine, Finland

Popidiot is a Estonian-Finnish band that maybe turned to be the biggest surprise in Estonian music scene ...
 
Deadly ethnic clash in closed city adjoining Russian missile test site
VIENNA, August 3 – A deadly clash between ethnic Chechens and ethnic Russians in a closed city near a missile test site in Astrakhan oblast on July ...
 
Berlin starts talks over Lisbon treaty law
Lisbeth Kirk, EUObserver

Leading representatives of the German governing parties will meet on Monday (3 August) in Berlin to formulate legislation ...
 
Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ shaping Moscow’s approach, analyst says (1)
VIENNA, August 3 – Political leaders in Russia have been profoundly affected by Samuel Huntington’s theory of the clash of civilizations, all the ...
 
Turn Your Head
Vello Vikerkaar, Sunday August 2

Text printed on a tip jar aboard Tallink’s M/S Star: The more you tip, the nicer we are.

Perhaps there ...
 
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