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This year Estonia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Estonian Song Festival with the biggest show ever welcoming over 30,000 singers and over 90,000 viewers to the song festival grounds in Tallinn. There's no better way to continue this celebration of a beautiful tradition by spreading awareness about ways how...

New York’s Saare Vikat at Freedom Square, Tallinn, waiting for their turn.   Photo: Kärt Ulman / VES While not part of the official XXVII Song and XX Dance Festival program, more than 300 dancers from diaspora (väliseesti) Esto-nian troupes from around the world danced together at Freedom Square on Sunday,...

ESTO Young Delegates to Create Global NetworkThe motto of the ESTO 2019 festival, which just drew to a close in Tallinn, was "Our Future". 66 young delegates were chosen to attend the festival from 27 countries across the globe in the hopes that they will carry on organizing and promoting...

Group photo of representatives from the three Baltic embassies, EANC, ALA, LAC and JBANC. Estonian American National Council (EANC) President Marju Rink-Abel and Washington, DC Director Karin Shuey represented EANC at this quarter’s meeting with the Baltic embassies and the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) on June 25th.  ...

Saare Vikat, meie New Yorgi rahvatantsurühm, on viimastel aastatel puudutanud palju inimesi meie kogukonnast. Soovin oma vaatenurgast Teile meie lugu esitada. Kuigi olen proovinud parimas kirjakeeles seda esile tuua, eks leidub mõni viga. Palun andestust nende eksimuste ja eelarvamuste eest, mida oleks võinud paremini esitada. Siin on neljas ja viimane...

Estonia Gains Non-Permanent UN Security Council SeatEstonia has gained a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2020-2021, following a vote at the international body's headquarters in New York. The announcement came after a second secret ballot gave the seat to Estonia, with four other nations earlier picking up...

Estonia Sent Additional Diplomats to NY Ahead of UN VoteEstonia sent additional diplomats to New York, who, together with officials already working there, are making final efforts to persuade representatives of other countries to give their vote to Estonia for non-permanent member of the UN Security Council on June 7....

The Estonian American National Council (EANC) is once again joining forces with our Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) colleagues to help Estonian Americans and other regional diaspora members contact their Members of Congress (MoCs) on issues that impact Baltic and European security. On June 13th, we are holding an...

I had a bit of a Canadian adventure, in 1950. I arrived in America in 1948 as a refugee, with 68 other immigrants, on a 72 foot boat, after a journey of 59 days. Being illegals, so to speak, we were parked on Ellis Island in New York for nearly...

This coming August 23rd, on the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way in 1989 and the 80th anniversary of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, EANC is joining forces with several Washington, DC organizations to host a reenactment of the historic linking of hands that marked a turning point in the Baltic...