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The Estonian Cultural Heritage Fund, Inc., established to support the preservation of Estonian culture in the US, is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2011/2012 academic year. Applicants must be US citizens who are or have been active in Estonian-American organizations and have personally advanced their knowledge of and skills...
8 October (BNS) - A team of surgeons under Tanel Laisaar at the University of Tartu Clinical Hospital on Thursday performed the first ever lung transplant operation in Estonia. The results of the operation are in line with expectations at this point, spokespeople for the hospital said. The surgery was...
ERR News - Local opposition politicians will now have a better chance of swaying presidential elections thanks to changes to the election law adopted by Parliament on October 27.The amendment to the law that governs presidential elections, which passed 57 to 20 with one abstention, affects the way local government...
The Estonian Students Fund in USA was founded in 1961 to provide scholarships and grants to students of Estonian heritage. Since the mid-1990s, the Fund has seen increasing requests for support from students in Estonia and fewer requests for support from Estonian-Americans in the USA. While we gladly support Estonian...
I recently read in Renewable Energy: Ontario’s New Gold Rush By David LaGesse For National Geographic News Published September 30, 2010 how in Ontario, Canada, home of Niagara Falls, one of the biggest hydroelectric plants in the world, 23,000 farmers are switching over to solar farming. I have been...
On October 2, 2010 10 very special young men and women were confirmed at the Lakewood Pühavaimu Kirik in Lakewood, NJ. Dean Vaga conducted the ceremony and it was witnessed by a full house. The service was followed by a party, which was organized by the 10 families, at the...
The National D-Day Memorial Foundation has erred again, and badly. Its decision to remove the Stalin bust but to reinstall it in the future is a grave insult to the brave Americans and others who stormed the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944 - no Soviet troops participated in D-Day...
Even if the Estonian population is used having banknotes in their pockets, this custom is going to change by January, when the Euro will start filling (also) Estonian pockets with coins. As published by the Estonian daily Eesti Päevaleht, this will also translate into a great loss for Estonian retailers....
ERR News - A growing trend of parents giving up their children due to poverty has highlighted serious imbalances in how state aid in Estonia is allocated. Parents are eligible for just 64 euros in state aid per month for their first child and 51 euros per month for every...
ERR News - The government has approved the draft 2011 budget which it will send to parliament next week, with a deficit of 1.6% of GDP and with investments at an all-time high as a percentage of the budget. Expenditure will be just over 6 billion euros - about 250...