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Black Ribbon Day Resolution Adopted By The House of Commons in Canada
TORONTO, November 30 - Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre, Hon. Bob Rae introduced a resolution today to recognize August 23rd –Black Ribbon Day- as a national Canadian day of remembrance for the millions of victims of totalitarian Communism and Nazism in Europe. The resolution, seconded by Etobicoke Centre MP,...
85 years from a coup d’etat in Tallinn
FM Review - In the early morning hours of 1 December 1924, a couple of hundred armed Communist conspirators attempted a coup d’etat in Tallinn. The conspirators killed approximately 20 people including the Estonian Minister of Transport Karl Kark. The Estonian people reacted quickly and crushed the attempted coup.1923 and...
Hats off to our parents
2009, after two trips from Melbourne, Australia to Europe and back has firmly convinced me that I am no longer the lively gazelle with unlimited energy to scamper up Geislingen’s hillsides. Nevertheless I relished the opportunity to disprove my fantasy.In September I was privileged to participate in the International conference...
CEEC Meets with Co-Chairs of the New Russia Caucus
The Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) met on November 17, 2009 with Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (R-Ohio) and Thomas Price (D-GA), co-chairs of the newly formed House Russia Caucus, to discuss the goals and mission of the Russia Caucus, and to provide suggestions for a possible agenda. While caucuses on...
ETV’s New TV Serial Wins Main Prize in Switzerland
FM Review - A new serial of Estonian Television (ETV), The Class: Life After, won the main prize in the television serials programme at the 15th international festival Cinema Tous Ecrans on November 5.The Estonian broadcasting company, ERR, told BNS that the producer of the serial, Gerda Kordemets, would receive...
Estonian Puppet Film Studio and Cinemabus Participated in Kids Euro Festival in Washington
6 November - This week the Estonian Cinemabus and Puppet Film Studio were at the Kids Euro Festival in Washington teaching American kids and teachers about filmmaking. Their stay was organised by the Estonian Embassy in Washington.Estonia was represented in the main programme (for ages 6-12 years) of the biggest...
“Sülle!” (What is that in English anyway?)
"Issi, sülle!" In a word: "Daddy, pick me up!" "Carry me!" "I want to sit in your lap!" I heard that a lot this morning, when the kids at my daughter's day care and kindergarten were overjoyed at having their daddies over for breakfast. Not just any breakfast, but a...
Ramifications Of Estonia’s Local Elections
Estonians abroad may think that the recent local/municipal elections in Estonia have only minor ramifications on power politics in the country. After all, it is not as if the mayors of Toronto or Halifax have real clout when it comes to federal politics. Toronto Mayor Miller’s foreign policy views or...
Populations of Several Wild Animals at Record High
3 November (BNS) - Latest data show that the population size of some wild animal species living in Estonian forests has risen more over the past decade than ever before during the time for which records exist, Eesti Päevaleht said.Peep Mannil, head of the game census department at the Centre...
The “Arctic Sea” – an account of Russian Environmentalists with Prison Tattoos and the Cruel Estonians who Drove them to Piracy
Jüri Estam’s summary of the article by George Feifer on the Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty website (http://www.rferl.org).There are two kinds of unsolved mysteries: the kind that unresolved, but without apparent funny business, such as the case of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during an...
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.
