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College Scholarships For Estonian-Americans
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...
Scrutinizing The Obvious
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...
Ten Young People Were Confirmed At The Lakewood Pühavaimu Kirik
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...
D-Day Foundation Errs Again – Removes Stalin Bust But Promises To Reinstall It
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...
Euro In Estonia: Coins Will Damage Retailers
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....
In Estonia Orphanages Get More State Aid per Child than Poor Parents
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...
Investments High in Estonian Draft 2011 Budget
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...
Pillerkaar Performed At Salisbury University, Maryland
On September 11, 2010, Pillerkaar danced at the Salisbury University event sponsored by the Sister Cities Association of Salisbury/Wicomico County and the Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council. His Excellency Väino Reinart, ambassador of Estonia to the United States, delivered a special greeting from Estonia and Salisbury’s sister city of Tartu during...
Reindependent Vs. Post-Soviet
Recent days have brought news articles pertaining to the "post-Soviet" condition that Estonia is said to be in. An Estonian Public Broadcasting news item in English on August 20 was headed "Estonia Marks 19 Years of Post-Soviet Independence.” National Public Radio in the US followed with "Russian Minority Struggles In...
Pillerkaar Performed At Scanfest
Pillerkaar, the Estonian folk-dance group from the Washington, D.C. area, entertained an enthusiastic crowd at the annual Scanfest at Budd Lake, Hackettstown, N.J. on Sunday, September 5, 2010. Scanfest is an outdoor festival of the Nordic nations - Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, and Estonia - which draws thousands of...
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.
