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Latatara Bridges The Gap Of Artistic Interpretation
By Anneliis BeadnellWhen artist Jaanika Peerna was asked to create an exhibition for New York Estonian House’s annual Kultuuripäevad (Cultural Days) 2010 she was positive that the Estonian language was to be the muse of the exhibition. The question was how to get more artists, Estonians and non-Estonians, to interact...
Read moreLest We Forget – Museum KGB Dungeons Recalls Crimes of Communism
After Estonia regained her independence, a group of former political prisoners sought support to convert the place where they were introduced into the Soviet penal system into a museum. As high school students they had been active in a patriotic underground organization, Blue-Black-White. KGB viewed that as a serious threat...
Read morePrivileged Memories – The Chapters Of One’s Life
The speech on the Estonian 92nd Anniversary Celebration in New York Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our “aktus” on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of the birth of the Republic of Estonia - a small windswept country situated on cliffs and with rocky soil in a geopolitically rather inhospitable...
Read moreA Staged Reading of Sofi Oksanen’s Purge is Presented at hotINK in NY
hotINK 2010 International Festival of Play Reading presents a staged reading of PURGE, by Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen (translated by Ewa Buchwald) on Sunday, January 24, 7:00 PM at Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.Purge opens a window on a remote area of newly independent Estonia in...
Read moreTwenty years ago: Bernard Schneider, M.D., recalls the Syracuse CT scanner project
Back in early 1990, before Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union, my wife Helju and I were at an Estonian gathering in Syracuse, New York. Our friends Maie and Oleg Golubjatnikov mentioned that the Estonian American Fund (EAF) was looking for medical contributions to send to Estonia. At...
Read moreNew York Times Publishes Overview of Estonia’s Euro Endeavours
15 December (BNS) - In its Tuesday issue, The New York Times contained an overview of the euro aspirations of Estonia and the other Baltic countries and of the problems connected with it.The paper finds that Estonia has fared better in the financial crisis than its two fellow former Soviet...
Read more20 Years Ago – “Baltic States Should Have Independence” in NYT
Twenty years ago The New York Times agreed with the administration’s foreign policy that favored democratization of the Soviet Union but not its disintegration. On November 6. 1989, the paper published a dissenting letter, and supplied its own headline. Ago Ambre November 6, 1989 To the Editor: Your observation that...
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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.
