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Farmers Fight For Children’s Right To Drive Tractors
ERR News - The Central Union of Estonian Farmers is protesting reforms in a new traffic law that would prohibit children from driving their parents tractors on farms.Specifically, the measure requires driver's licenses even when operating a tractor on private property. "This reform would take away the legal right for...
Estonian Tax System Rated Business-Friendlier
ERR News - According to research by Pricewater-houseCoopers and the World Bank published November 19, Estonia has risen from 38th to 30th overall in the rankings for the ease of paying taxes.The comprehensive international study Paying Taxes 2011 allows the taxation system to be assessed from a number of aspects....
Deer Hunting Season May Be Extended
ERR News - The Ministry of the Environment has been approached with a request to extend the deer hunting season for does and calves well into the new year to control growing populations of red deer on the Western Estonian islands, which are often considered a nuisance.Currently deer season opens...
Celebrations For The Euro And European Capital Of Culture To Be Held On TallinnTheatre Square
Tallinn, Stenbock House, 22 November – In association with the City of Tallinn and the Tallinn 2011 foundation, the state is inviting everyone to join in the celebrations marking the arrival of the single currency and the title of European Capital of Culture on Theatre Square in front of the...
Power To The People!
Every hour I hear blasting on the local Estonian Television stations, “Borrowing time is here again!” The holiday season is traditionally a time for giving, but these SMS loans are a form of legal stealing. The thought of people still naïve enough to get even more into debt that way...
Life Flows In Estonia
While growing up in the United States, Estonia was always the lost pomised land stolen from our parents by the evil empire. Today Estonia is a free country, a member of NATO and the European Union, but we all know this already. Instead of whooping it up because Estonia gets...
Neeme Järvi Resigns
VES/ERR News - World-renowned conductor Neeme Järvi has announced that he is stepping down from his post as artistic director of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra after just three months. Järvi made the statement on November 18, from Florida, where he is vacationing, according to Eesti Päevaleht."I have been art...
More Top Officials Leave As Culture Minister Faces No-Confidence Vote
ERR News - After some leaders of the culture community went head-to-head in a fury over the firing of the National Symphony Orchestra's director, two more top officials in the Ministry of Culture have lost their jobs for unrelated reasons.Meanwhile, the opposition coalition is discussing a possible vote of no...
When Souls Come Visiting
On November 2nd in Estonia it is All Souls Day. In the United States Halloween marks the end of the harvest or summer period, and Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the traditional winter season. If you have grown up in the United States as I had, most of my direct...
Narva’s Historic Textile Factory Folds
ERR News - The company that operates the 153-year-old Kreenholm textile factory, one of the largest and longest-running enterprises in Narva, is going into bankruptcy.Swedish textile company Boras Wäfveri on Wednesday announced that it is filing for bankruptcy for its Narva subsidiary, Kreenholmi Valduse AS, a move that will put...
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.
