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  ERR News - Eesti Energia's Chairman of the Board, Sandor Liive, spoke on ETV  defending the energy giant's Utah venture after attacks from opposition members of Parliament. Liive said that Eesti Energia, or Enefit as it is known internationally, is on track in Utah and the project will take...

  ERR News - Last week, the news broke that Scott Diel, a contributing editor for ERR News, and composer Eugene Birman are creating what has been called a "financial opera," recounting last year's Twitter duel between Estonia's president and economist Paul Krugman. ERR News interviewed Diel, the librettist, who...

  ERR News - The largest negative net migration of the past decade helped push Estonia's population down by another 7,915 people last year, according to preliminary figures released on January 18, by Statistics Estonia. Based on registered births, deaths and migration figures for the year, the agency put the...

  ERR News - Tõnis Lukas, appointed head of the National Museum yesterday, said he hoped to sign the building contract for the museum's new complex next week and that construction should start in March. It is Lukas's second time directing the museum, ETV reported. He praised the work of...

  A London-based classical music review website has, for the second year running, named Arvo Pärt the year's most-performed living composer. Bachtrack.com put the 77-year-old Estonian in 54th place overall in its "Concert and Opera League Tables 2012," a list created from a sampling of 12,597 concerts and 4,451 opera performances. ...

  At its 60th Anniversary Gala in September 2012, The Estonian American National Council (EANC) announced that it would distribute a portion of the Gala proceeds to the Long Island Estonian Children’s Summer Camp and the Estonian American Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. On December 15 at the “Järvemetsa” Christmas...

  Have you considered popping some suir as part of a healthier New Year's regime? Or tried sõir as an appetizer (eel/roog)? They're both made for consumption with great care and love. When I first typed sõir into my internet search engine (otsingu/mootor), the only hits I got were for...

  Wrapping up the old year well might be more important to Estonians than a spectacular start to the new. Depending of course on how superstitious you are. Why else do Estonians wish each other "Head vana-aasta lõppu" – "Happy end of the old year", up until the clock has...

  Juba tosin aastaid olen iga nädal kirjutanud Taanist üle Suure Lombi mitmesuguseid juhtkirju, mille kaudu olen püüdnud edastada oma muljeid, tähelepanekuid ja katseid eriti Eesti arengu analüüsiks. Osa neist umbes 600 artiklist on ühepäevaliblikad, lähtudes mõnest aktuaalsest sündmusest. Teised sisaldavad katseid vaadelda Eesti ajalugu laiemas kontekstis, leida mineviku kogemustest...

   (Washington, DC) -  The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC), representing the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian communities in the United States, enthusiastically applauds the passage of the Magnitsky Act in the U.S. Congress, and the signing of the Act into law by President Barack Obama on Dec. 14....