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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...