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  I came across this on the internet: On 8 April, 2010, five high-tech companies signed EU grant agreements with the Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Lithuania at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Vilnius University in Visoriai.  Together with foreign investors, these companies are setting...

  ERR News - The US government's Committee on Foreign Investment gave Eesti Energia the green light to acquire Oil Shale Explo-ration Company (based in Alabama), which held the biggest and most complex private oil shale reserves in the state of Utah. "We want to welcome to Utah," said Governor...

  ERR News - Estonia is receiving 507 electric cars - for which it plans to establish a pervasive nationwide network to charge the vehicles - in exchange for trading 10 million carbon dioxide credits to Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi.   The i-MiEV make cars, which are to arrive in Decem-ber,...

  ERR News - The Reform Party's leadership decided at a meeting on March 9, to start coalition talks with IRL (Pro Patria and Res Publica Union), leaving out the Social Democrats, with whom they also held preli-minary discussions, Reform spokesman Silver Pukk told uudised.err.ee.  Reform's Secretary General Kristen Michal...

  Lee Edwards While members of Cong-ress, former cabinet members, long-time aides and assorted VIPs were celebrating Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday at the Reagan Presi-dential Library in sun-baked Simi Valley, California, I was nearly 6,000 miles away in snow-bound Tallinn, Estonia, a small Baltic country borde-ring on the former Soviet...

  ERR News - The Estonian Road Administration announced that all six of the state-funded ice roads were in service by February 26. The fifth, 12-kilometre link was opened on February 22, connecting the country's largest island to the mainland road network.  The last time motorists could make a circuitous...

  ERR News - February 24, 1918 was the day when the Estonian Declaration of Independence, issued by the Maapäev (National Council), was printed and proclaimed in Tallinn. "In the course of centuries, never have the Estonian people lost their desire for independence. From generation to generation, they have kept...

Washington, DC (JBANC) --- The ninth Joint Baltic American National Com-mittee, Inc. (JBANC) confe-rence being held in Washington, DC on April 1-2, 2011 will commemorate fifty years of activism for the Baltic cause. JBANC, founded in 1961, will hold its half-century conference at the Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill:...

I have been in Tallinn for a week to get some things done when my wife’s son Uku called to invite us to The Estonian Television Studio where he was rehearsing for the Estonian Song competition  which will take place on the 19th of February coming up. Uku is performing...

  Every time I start something new, I want it to be done yesterday. I have been talking and writing about our 100kW Kurenurme Solar Project for a couple of years now. Like a Jehovah Witness trying to save the world I sometimes feel no one, not even the Estonian...