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Theatre Estonia after bombing.   Archive photo A few moments ago a vehicle passed our home with its siren blaring. Most likely it was a police car. The whining sound changed pitch up and down. It became louder, then after the vehicle passed, it got softer and finally the siren merged...

My name is Helga Merits. I’m a documentary filmmaker. My latest film was Coming home soon – the refugee children of Geislingen. There are still screenings (see  http://geislingen.estdocs.com), but in the meantime I have started to work on other projects. One will be about Seabrook Farms. This farm – one...

A delegation from the Estonian Ministry of Culture was in DC in the beginning of April. They brought with them two kannels (kannel is a traditional Estonian string instrument that has been a part of local culture for 2000 years) that found new homes. One kannel was donated to the...

Jonatan Vseviov, the Ambassador of Estonia will be featured at the Washington Diplomat's "Ambassador Insider" series on May, 2, 2019. The Ambassador will talk about security, transatlantic relations, digital society and many other things. Tiny Estonia is often described as the world’s first genuinely digital society. Famous for creating Skype,...

Maryland National Guard Adjutant General Major General  Singh (right) at the Estonian display table with embassy representative and folkdancers.   Photo by Karin Shuey On April 12th, Maryland National Guard personnel met at Baltimore’s 5th Regiment Armory to show their ethnic pride, share their varied customs and cuisines, and recognize those...

On April 13, 2019, former Estonian President Toomas Ilves addressed the vulnerabilities of democracy in the digital age before a standing room only crowd at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Mr. Ilves described in great detail how nearly all of the...

Arne – grandfather, dad, husband, gentleman, friend, mentor, teacher, role model, businessman, man behind the scenes, American, Estonian – there are hundreds of beautiful words to describe Arne and his impact on the world. The first time I learned about Mr Kalm was when our Estonia just became independent again...

In recognition of the Estonian Republic’s 100th anniversary, San Francisco Estonian Society invites you to join former president Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Rainer Sternfeld, for a conversation about Estonia today and the prospects for the republic. As a member of NATO and of the European Union, how well is Estonia,...

Since 2014, in April the NGO Estonian Society of Wounded Soldiers in co-operation with the Women’s Voluntary Defense Organization carry out a charity campaign “Let us Salute!” The Two-Mile Blue Hepatica run has become a tradition of “Let Us Salute!” campaign and in 2019 takes place for the first time...

Heino, the caretaker of the building next door, has tried to bring blue hepatica (Hepatica nobilis, liverwort) which love the shady forest floor, to a cultural city garden. Regrettably, the result will be the same as when picking sini/lilled ("blue flowers") to put in a vase –  the beauty is...