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Prime Minister Ansip opened the international energy conference at Tallinn University of Technology
Government News – On October 14, when opening the “Baltic Clean and Green Conference“, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip stressed the importance of new energy technologies in the creation of sustainable economic growth. In addition to the importance of international cooperation, he also talked about the future of Estonian energy. Ansip...
A Plea For History
I am writing this in English, for I want to have its intended message reach across our diaspora, the Estonian diaspora. It has been done before, but the context was different and it was long ago. It is high time that we write the histories of our organizations and our...
It’s Getting More Expensive To Fly From Tallinn To Europe
bbn.ee - Statistics compiled by Estravel indicate that the decline in the number of air passengers and direct flights has caused an increase in the prices of plane tickets from Tallinn to European capitals.The prices of plane tickets with taxes have increased to nearly all of the most popular European...
Estonian Supemarkets Are Leaving Latvia
bbn.ee - Tallinna Kaubamaja AS, Estonia’s largest retailer’s shares, fell greatly five weeks after the company said it will close all six of its Selver supermarkets in Latvia and cut 220 jobs in the neighboring country because of a “sudden deterioration” in the Baltic country’s economy.Kaubamaja shares fell almost 12...
Central And East European Coalition Meets With White House Officials To Discuss U.S. Policies In The Region
Washington, DC (JBANC) --- Following recent important foreign policy trips by President Obama to Moscow and Vice President Biden to Ukraine and Georgia, the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC), an assembly of 18 ethnic organizations representing the communities of Central and East European descent, had an opportunity to meet...
President Obama Announces Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia
The White House - On September 25, 2009 President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Michael C. Polt to the post of Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia.Michael Polt is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and has been the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau...
Distinguished Estonian Buried With Military Honors
On September 18, 2009 Lieutenant Colonel Vallo Truumees was memorialized and interred at Arlington National Ceme-tery. He is one of only less than 10 persons of Estonian heritage to receive this honor. Anyone who knew Vallo will tell you he was a larger-than-life character; a man who loved life and...
23 August: Europe-Wide Remembrance Day For The Victims Of All Totalitarian And Authoritarian Regimes
MFA Review - On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany concluded a treaty of non-aggression known as the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact (hereinafter the MRP) after its signatories, the Soviet Union's People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop. In...
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.
