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ERR News - The Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Champion-ships started on January 26 in the southern Estonian town of Otepää, marking the country's biggest-ever high-profile athletic competition. Seven hundred young athletes from 38 countries will compete in single and cross country skiing, ski jumping and the biathlon. Estonia...

ERR News  - A grassroots nonprofit representing internet users has criticized the announ-cement of a public tender for a solution to allow diacritic marks such as umlauts and tildes in domain names. The group, the Estonian Internet Community, says that the move would only cause confusion and force users to...

ERR News - On a visit to the United States, Foreign Minister Urmas Paet met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January 20 to discuss Afghanistan, NATO and relations with Russia. "Now I could go on and on about Estonia, and I have enjoyed already two visits as Secretary...

On January 25, 2011, Embassy Tallinn opened its fourth American Corner in Estonia.  The Corner is in Tartu and joins the three existing American Corners in Kuressaare, Viljandi and Narva. Our diplomatic mission encompasses all of Estonia, not only Tallinn, and the American Corners allow us to more readily engage...

On January 24, Bombar-dier Aerospace delivered the first of three CRJ900 NextGen regional jets ordered by Estonian Air in 2010. The transaction included options on two additional CRJ900 NextGen aircraft. The handover to the Tallinn, Estonia-based airline was celebrated at Bombardier Aero-space’s facility in Mirabel, Québec, where the CRJ900 NextGen...

There are lots of relevant political discussions and interviews in the newspapers, on the radio and television lately defining the differences between the party platforms. Winter is always a good time for country people to visit, get together and discuss what is happening.  Naturally prior to an election, it is...

In 2001, approximately 86 percent of the world's energy was obtained from fossil fuels. While fuel reserves are sufficient to support an energy demand expected to triple by 2100, the more immediate problem lies in stabilizing excess atmospheric carbon dioxide -a key contributor to global warming -by adopting and developing...

The Estonian Students Fund in USA was founded in 1961 to provide scholarships and grants to students of Estonian heritage.   While we gladly support Estonian students no matter what part of the world they live in, we are hoping to reach greater number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation Estonian-Americans...

ERR News - If it weighs more than 500 grams and you want to airmail it to the United States, you can't send it by Eesti Post - at least, not until February 7, the national postal service has announced.Eesti Post said that, due to newly-imposed restrictions by the US...

ERR News - President Toomas Hendrik Ilves awarded the presidential award for best young scholar to Bruno Mölder.Mölder's field is philosophy of mind, a primary branch of analytical philosophy which deals with the role of a person's mind or psyche as it relates to the natural world. Mölder is currently...