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EU prepares for era of disasters
Jennifer Rankin, European Voice

The European Commission will urge national governments to club together to prevent natural disasters, in a policy ...
 
More than 100 languages in Russia at risk of disappearing, UNESCO says
VIENNA, February 21 – Today is Native Language Day, a United Nations holiday established a decade ago and designed to call attention both to the ...
 
Latvia’s Government Falls on Economic Toll NYT
By DAVID L. STERN

KIEV, Ukraine — Latvia’s center-right coalition government collapsed Friday, a victim of the country’s growing ...
 
Patriotism sung large
Bonzo. Ei saa mitte vaiki olla. Tulsa records TULCD02, 2008.

The coldest month of the year is also the one during which Estonians perhaps show ...
 
Brokenjoe supports Eesti Maja
Toronto blues, roots and folk band Brokenjoe is the latest quality act to contribute towards the Toronto Estonian House’s fundraising efforts.
 
A new collection “Socio-economic and Institutional Environment:
Harmonisation in the EU Countries of Baltic Sea Rim”

Mait Talts,Tallinn University of Technology

Recently the Institute for European Studies ...
 
Latvia, Estonia weary of delay on Baltic plant
Leaders of Latvia and Estonia complained Wednesday about delays in the proposed Ignalina nuclear power project intended to reduce the dependency of ...
 
Eestlane ei karda tööd
I spent two hours yesterday in the presence of Marju Lauristin, and I am still tired from the experience. This is a human being who, even in her late ...
 
UK calls for unit to defend Nato territory
James Blitz and Alex Barker, Financial Times

John Hutton, Britain's defence secretary, will propose today that Nato members set up a ...
 
Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic enters new and more dangerous phase
VIENNA, February 19 – The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia has entered a new and more dangerous phase not only because the infections are spreading not ...
 
Swedbank's Estonian analyst criticizes foreign economists
Juhan Tere, BC

The situation in the Baltic nations is not too good, but it should be evaluated by someone who knows what is going on here, the ...
 
Estonians least religious in the world
EU Observer

Five EU members figure among the world's top 10 least religious countries, with Estonia leading the list, a new poll has shown.
 
Russian court seizure of independent Orthodox churches threatens Russia's future, activists say (1)
VIENNA, February 16 – A Russian court has confiscated 13 churches belonging to the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, a successor to the ...
 
Russian occupation threatens more than Georgia: threat to the East-West corridor
David J. Smith*

TBILISI - Another round of international talks on the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is underway this week in ...
 
Americans in the gulag (2)
The little-known story of US citizens trying to escape the Depression

Adam Hochschild

Mountainous Kolyma, only a few hundred miles west of the ...
 
Kremlin wheeler-dealers
BBC Monitoring

A major Russian newspaper and widely read news website speculate that the Kremlin's foreign-aid spending spree will prove ...
 
Moscow's long-range program for indigenous peoples likely to spark conflicts
VIENNA, February 13 – The Russian government this week adopted a 16-year program to promote "the development of communities and other forms of ...
 
Economic pain in Estonia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia MarketWatch
By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A slew of economic reports from Eastern Europe on Friday highlighted the depth of the ...
 
Moscow using Soviet-era tactic to penetrate, control opposition groups
In an article entitled "The Seksots of the 21st Century," Ilya Barabanov and Yekaterina Savina say that "the lexicon of the times of ...
 
Pilots saw 'significant ice' on wings before crash CTV
The National Transportation Safety Board has analyzed the flight data and cockpit recorders of doomed....
 
Discovering Eesti (8)
I like to think of myself as a “citizen of the world”: birthplace England, heritage Estonian, passport Canadian.
 
FRIENDLY UNDERMINING OF RESTORED INDEPENDENCE pt.2
As high cost integration programs had failed to noticeably influence Russians and Estonians to change their attitudes, a new “Good for Estonia” ...
 
Russian websites: accurate and credible?
Estonian Central Council in Canada - LL

"Estonia will not allow the sister of Aleksius II (the last Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow) ...
 
The Estonian Ethnographic Society’s children’s folk fashions sewing workshop is underway!
The Estonian Ethnographic Society (EERK) course organizers and sewing instructors Helle Arro and Maaja Matsoo were very pleased with the turnout on ...
 
Time to take the riddle out of Russia (2)
Europe's view of Russia frequently reflects misconceptions. Some Europeans hide behind Winston Churchill's famous -- but often ...
 
WWII Tank Found after 62 Years. (1)
WW II Russian tank with German markings uncovered after 62 years. WW II Buffs will find this interesting. Even after 62 years (and a little ...
 
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