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Estonian Leaders Featured at Prominent Policy Forum
The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) held its annual policy forum virtually from September 28th to 30th. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and Markus Villig, co-founder and CEO of Bolt, were among the experts consulted on this year’s focus of “Fit to Lead: Renewing the...
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas in DC
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was in Washington, DC on July 13th and 14th for meetings with Members of Congress to discuss the Baltic Security Initiative and other issues relating to U.S.-Estonia security cooperation. Karin Shuey, Estonian American National Council (EANC) Washington, DC Director, and her colleagues at the...
June 1941 Deportations 80th Anniversary Marked Nationwide
Events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the June 14, 1941 Soviet deportation of Estonians took place nationwide on June 14th. An estimated 10,205 Estonians were deported without trial and on a purely arbitrary basis, including children, women and the elderly, deep into Soviet territory, meaning primarily the Siberian Gulag system...
VIDEO: Virtual forum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for GLOBAL ESTONIANS
At the forum we present the plans and activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Global Estonians and the results of the survey conducted in October. We discuss the most recent focus topics of the Foreign Ministry – cyber diplomacy and business diplomacy – that help boost Estonia’s image...
Estonian Academy of Arts Student’s Film Wins International Award
A masters student at the Estonian Academy of Arts has won the best animation award at the Palm Springs International Animation Festival. "You Are Not a Kiwi" created using watercolors by Maria Savaleva premiered in the festival's main program and won in the watercolor-animation category. The film deals with integration...
Tallinn Monument to Strays Garners Worldwide Attention
Žorik was mentioned in the article describing the Kassi/abi cat shelter calender on this page two weeks ago. The legendary, elderly (14+ year-old), ailing Kalamaja neighborhood lind/prii (outlaw, "bird free", free as a bird), as he is known, was safely retired to an outdoor enclosure in the countryside this past...
Estonians Will Provide Stereo Cameras to Maxar Technologies for NASA’s Artemis Lunar Program
Tallinn, Estonia, January 11, 2021 – Estonian company Crystalspace, partnered with the University of Tartu's Tartu Observatory and Krakul, has been selected by Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, to build two cameras that will act as a stereo pair to monitor the...
National Library Showing Rare, Old Textbooks For The First Time
The National Library of Estonia is holding an exhibition of textbooks used for studying in the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s, which are on display for the first time The oldest textbook is from the year 1515 and additionally, studying tools used during that time can also be viewed. The "ABC...
Tartu the Christmas City
"Tartu the Christmas City" is the university city's other, current claim to fame. Its Town Hall Square is full of glass pavilions, including one from which writers broadcast poetry online and another housing happy chickens that lay Christmas eggs. But the crowning glory of this year's Village of Light is...
Tartu Nominated for Environment and Climate Award
Tartu's "success story" at reducing car traffic, noise and air pollution in the city center has been nominated for an international award at the Green Destinations Stories Awards. In October, Tartu entered the Sustainable TOP 100 Destinations list of the international sustainable tourism development organization Green Destinations. It submitted its...
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.
