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There’s an image I can’t shake: A 13-year-old girl clings to the railing of the hospital ship Moero, fleeing the carnage of war gripping her home country of Estonia. The year is 1944. The Soviets have mined the harbor in Tallinn, and the ship groans under the weight of desperate...

Cleveland area Estonians gathered at Der Braumeis-ter restaurant to celebrate independence day.  We had Estonians from as far away as Dayton, OH and Ann Arbor, MI in attendance.  After lunches were ordered, Toomas Tubalkain introduced Latvian representative Karlis Blooms and Lithuanian Honorary Consul Mrs. Ingrida Bublys. They both gave brief...

The news and updates come at a blistering pace. It’s hard to keep up with the volume and impact. But the quality of content? It is frighteningly stupefying. The Trump administration has been hellbent on upending the everyday normal. Steve Bannon’s “flooding the zone” strategy, which The New York Times...

February 20, 2025 The war in Ukraine began with Russia’s unprovoked and catastrophic invasion on the morning of February 24, 2022. The symbolic significance of this date, Estonia’s Independence Day, commemorating liberation and freedom from Russia, is alarmingly clear to Estonian-Americans. Estonians endured almost 50 years of Soviet occupation and...

Tommy Cash and his song "Espresso Macchiato" clinched the top spot at Eesti Laul on the night of February 15 and will go on to represent Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland in May. Cash won an overwhelming majority of the vote – 83 percent – beating 15...

For second and third-ge-neration Estonians living abroad, maintaining a connection to their linguistic and cultural heritage can be challenging. Recognizing this unique need, a specia-lized Master's degree programme “Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages” (EFUL) has been launched at the University of Tartu to empower these individuals to rediscover, embrace, and deepen...

The Boston Baltic Film Festival (BBFF) returns for 7th season with new Estonian films on February 28 - March 17, 2025. Most Estonians know the touching song that is always performed at the song festivals, “Ta lendab mesipuu poole/ He flies toward the honey tree…” But few people know the...

Washington – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Co-Chairs of the Senate Baltic Freedom Caucus, along with U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), Co-Chair of the Senate NATO Observer Group, and U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) met with ambassadors to the U.S. from various...

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna's year-end address to Estonians around the world The world is going through a difficult time. Living far away from home during critical times is sure to stir various feelings but let us keep our heads clear and hearts warm. In Europe, Ukrainians have been fighting...

Along the many pathways to freedom that started with the mass flight from Estonia 80 years ago, our stories evolve to this day. You can engrave that story right into the heart of North America's 4th largest city, at KESKUS: Estonian Arts Centre presents the Pathway to Freedom paver stone...