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Two Recent College Graduates Play On The Estonian National Women’s Basketball Team
The Estonian national women's basketball team has started competition in Group B in the 2012 European basketball championships. Two members of the team are recent graduates from American colleges and universities. Kati Rausberg earned a BA with a double major in International Business and Management at Eckerd College in...
Read moreWreath Laying Ceremony To Honor The Victims Of Communism Worldwide
Tribute To Donald Rumsfeld And Gulag Exhibit Preview Washington, DC – Donald Rumsfeld, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Annette Lantos, Chairman of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, will headline a list of speakers and guests from Capitol Hill and Washington’s diplomatic corps at a June 12,...
Read moreAndrejs Jansons – Recipient Of This Year’s Culture Award
The Foundation for Estonian Arts and Letters in the U.S. participates every April in the celebration of Estonian culture and arts. It has been a long tradition. As a part of the program, a prize is awarded to a person who has earned special recognition in supporting and/or...
Read moreEstonia: A Personal Historic Overview A Talk At The New York Estonian Culture Days
On Saturday, April 14, 2012, 3 PM at the New York Estonian Culture Days at the New York Estonian House. THOMAS PALM, Ph.D. Estonia: a personal historic overview: Why does a choir of 25,000 people sing about insects? The role of location in national history -- 700 years of...
Read moreMargus H. Kuuse honoured by Automobile magazine in the USA
Automobile magazine´s December 2011 issue published a sidebar by Jamie Kitman to the story Writer´s Blog about Margus H. Kuuse of Estonia (page 88). Margus-Hans Kuuse (Tallinn, Estonia) is the oldest (68) automobile journalist, historian and author on a huge territory which until 1991 was known as the USSR. He...
Read moreHonoring The Estonian Language
Anyone who has ever attempted to learn Estonian knows what a beautiful, but extremely challenging, language it is. Estonians too deeply value their mother tongue, and mark March 14th, the birthday of Kristjan Jaak Peterson, as Emakeelepäev, or Estonian Language Day. Although he died in 1822 at the very...
Read moreThe Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us
Saturday, March 24th at 5 pm at New York Estonian House (243 East 34th Street, New York, NY). Like most Eastern Europeans, Estonians resist being called Eastern European. Francis Tapon will not only explain why he puts Estonia in Eastern Europe, but he will also explain what we can...
Read moreLinda Rink Appointed New Executive Director Of Estonian American National Council
January 18, 2012 --- The Estonian American National Council, Inc, (EANC) has named Linda Rink as its new Executive Director. L. Rink will assist the Board of Directors with developing and implementing programs and strategies, and will be responsible for EANC’s day-to-day operations, including bookkeeping, marketing, and communications. Before...
Read moreYour Estonian Independence Day Ad Supports Vaba Eesti Sõna
Dear benevolent reader, subscriber or friend of Free Estonian Word! In February 2012 VABA EESTI SÕNA (Free Estonian Word) will publish a commemorative issue to honor the 94th ESTONIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY. As the continuation of Estonia and Estonian language relies on its citizen, the future of our newspaper...
Read moreWith Applause Klenk 2011 Declared A Success
Setting the record for attendance in the 21st Century, 150 participants responding to the invitation to share their love of Estonia and Estonian culture attended KLENK's annual sõpruspäevad and conference in St. Petersburg, Florida's Magnuson Hotel Marina Cove Conference Center, January 6 and 7, 2012. Cohosted by the Estonian...
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Vaba Eesti Sõna is an Estonian expatriate weekly newspaper with a national readership, founded in 1949 and published in New York City by the Nordic Press.
