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Eesti Post Stops Taking US-Bound Packages
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...
2010’s Best Young Scholar is Philosopher of Mind
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...
Peace On Earth, Still The Best Gift For Christmas
Have you ever noticed that in movies where someone suddenly comes into a large fortune, whether a lottery win or a fabulous unexpected inheritance, the rest of the storyline centers on the disappointment good fortune brings and the attempt to restore the previous pecuniary circumstances? Orson Welles’ Citizen Cane has...
Estonian 2011 Budget Passes
ERR News - Estonian Parliament confirmed the final version of the 2011 national budget with a 55- 32 vote, increasing revenue by 2 percent to 5.7 billion euros.A priority of the budget is education, for which expenditure rose by 8 percent. Costs for defense grew to 1.9 percent of GDP.A...
Estonian Food Bank Expands
ERR News - Estonia's first and only food bank-type NGO to feed those in need, founded in March of this year, expanded throughout the country on December 9, when the towns of Narva, Pärnu, Rakvere, Tartu and Jõhvi signed contracts.The Food Bank, run by volunteers, was established by the Sunflower...
Organic Milk to be Sold in Vending Machines
ERR News - In coming months, a project of the Central Union of Farmers will introduce organic milk vending machines in shopping centers so that Estonians can fill reusable bottles with unpasteurized milk for a 20 percent price increase.Lithuania is already using similar machines, which originated from Italy and have...
Aaviksoo: Estonian Cyberdefence Is Held In High Regard In Us
Dec 2, 2010 - While visiting the US Cyber Comand on December 1, Minister of Defence Jaak Aaviksoo stated that Estonia can contribute a lot more to the security of NATO and its allies in the field of cyber security than its size suggests.In Ft. George Meade Aaviksoo met with...
Baruto Spends Christmas At Home
ERR News - Estonian-born sumo celebrity Baruto, or Kaido Höövelson, said that despite thinking in Japanese, he often misses the unceremonious life of an ordinary person, which he intends to reclaim at the family's country cottage during the holidays.Baruto said his celebrity status in Japan is not easy to bear....
Government Approves Renewable Energy Plan
ERR News - Estonian go-vernment has approved the Estonain renewable energy activity plan up to 2020, increasing the percentage of renewables by one-quarter of total energy consumption. Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications Juhan Parts pledges that the country wlll fulfill its obligations to the European Union. The interim target...
‘The Confession’ Shortlisted for Oscar Nomination
ERR News - A film by Estonian director Tanel Toom has made the list of 10 films still in the running for best short film at next year's Academy Awards."The Confession," a tragic story of a nine-year-old and a prank gone wrong, was one of 76 films submitted for the...
Vaba Eesti Sõna is an Estonian expatriate weekly newspaper with a national readership, founded in 1949 and published in New York City by the Nordic Press.
