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Report Puts Worldwide Population of Estonians at 1.06 Mln
15 July (BNS) - The number of ethnic Estonians living in the world now is 1 060 000, of whom 930 000 live in Estonia and about 130 000, or 12%, in other countries, it appears from a human resource report presented by the Estonian Co-operation Assembly on July 15....
The Times Compares Sofi Oksanen to Sweden’s Stig Larsson
12 July (BNS) - According to July 12 issue of the Times, Sofi Oksanen, a Finnish writer of Estonian roots, is becoming as popular a writer as the Swede Stig Larsson. The Times wrote that although Oksanen has sold only a few hundred thousand copies of her books compared with...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Proceedings Of The Institute For European Studies, Tallinn University Of Technology
The Institute for European Studies at the Department of International Relations of Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration (Tallinn University of Technology), Estonia has published a peer-reviewed serial edition called Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies (abbreviation IES Proceedings) for some years. Since 2009 it is a peer-reviewed...
Estonia On Course For The EURO
European Commission, July 13, 2010 - The ECOFIN Council took the final decisions on the euro adoption in Estonia and confirmed that Estonia is ready and will adopt the euro on January 1, 2011. This decision culminates an approval process that began on May 12, with the adoption of the...
New Estonian heat records for 2010 set in two southern towns
The maximum air temperature record for this year was surpassed in the South Estonian towns of Elva and Valga Monday evening as the temperature hit 30.8 degrees Celsius in Elva and 30.5 degrees in Valga between 6 and 7 p.m.As the rising trend in air temperatures continues, several more records...
Eesti in brief
*Two months into this year’s Expo, in Shanghai, Estonia has recorded the millionth visitor to its pavilion, reports EPL Online. This visitor was a 17-year-old Chinese schoolboy named Wang Qi. The number of visitors at the pavilion will probably exceed the total number of residents in Estonia before the end...
Dr. Henn H. Soonpää
Dr. Henn H. Soonpää, 80, of Grand Forks, died unexpectedly on Thursday, July 1, 2010, in St. Mary's Hos-pital, Rochester, Minnesota.Henn Soonpää was born to Karl Johannes and Antonie (Adamson) Soonpää on March 18, 1930, in Tallinn-Nõmme, Estonia. He was raised and educated there until the family left Estonia to...
Estonia gets official OK on euro for 2011
After months of build-up and clearing the final hurdles, Estonia has officially been given the go-ahead from Brussels to become the 17th member of the eurozone at the beginning of next year.The EU on Tuesday gave the small country the green light for taking on the currency as of Jan....
Smithsonian’s Rick Steves About Estonia
To commemorate the Smithsonian Presents Travels with Rick Steves magazine -- now on sale online, and at newsstands nationwide -- Rick is blogging about the 20 top destinations featured in that issue. One of those destinations is Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.Visiting a tiny land like Estonia, I'm impressed by...
Make Them Speak Eesti Keelt!
Young people from Russia, Finland, but also for example from Japan, Serbia, Turkey, France, US, Romania and Italy have already signed up to spend three weeks of their summer vacation in Tallinn in order to learn Estonian language at the Tallinn Summer School, intensive language course organized for the fifth...
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.
