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  The Estonian American National Council is pleased to announce that Maia Linask was elected to its Board of Directors at its annual meeting on September 29, 2012.  She has been an EANC member since 2010.  Ms. Linask is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Richmond’s Robins School...

  ERR News - Enefit has taken steps to produce the first batch of American-sourced shale oil and measurement results are expected soon. The Estonian company - the international arm of the state power company Eesti Energia  – has to prove the shale quality is acceptable in order to launch...

  ERR News -A newly published University of Tartu doctoral thesis has concluded that Estonians and Finns, despite having similar languages, are genetically less related than Estonians are to Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles and northwestern Russians. Nevertheless, Estonians are still the closest genetic relatives that the Finns have, reported Postimees. In...

  ERR News - In search of fresh impetus, Olympic discus thrower Gerd Kanter announced on October 24, that he will part ways with his current trainer and team coach in November. "I have firmly decided to continue my athletic road for at least until 2016 and for this period...

  ERR News - After being cast out of the Reform Party on October 24, Silver Meikar warned of continuing corruption in the political landscape. "Unfortunately, I was not invited to the meeting and no justification was provided ," Meikar wrote in his blog on Wednesday. "It is not right...

  "G () D () T." A World Premiere absurdist comedy After watching Samuel Beckett's classic of the Theatre of the Absurd, "Waiting for Godot," one always asks . . . "What was Godot actually doing while Vladimir and Estragon were waiting for him?" The World Premiere of "G ( )...

  The first weekend in October offered Los Angeles Estonian music lovers a wonderful event.  At the Filter Magazine Culture Collide Festival, Ewert and The Two Dragons, which is gaining significant popularity momentum in Europe, hit the concert stage "boards" to perform for the audience.  For the next two days,...

  My wife and I spent a week in our nation’s capital! The draw was the celebration of 60 years of the Estonian American National Council’s (EANC) work on behalf of Estonia’s struggle for independence and of the work to maintain the Estonian community’s cultural heritage in the United States....

  The Seaplane Harbour of the Estonian Maritime Museum has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in two subcategories. The Seaplane Harbour of the Estonian Maritime Museum was opened on May 12th this year. The Seaplane Harbour will be represented at the festival by KOKO architects Andrus Kõresaar...

Please Ask Your Representatives For Their Support    Washington, DC (JBANC) --- Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives (H. Res. 790) that supports the designation of August 23 as Black Ribbon Day to recognize the victims of Soviet Communist and Nazi regimes.     Your help...